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A  Brief  W, 
Historical  Sketch 

OF  WAKEFIELD 

PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH 

AND  SUNDAY  SCHOOL 


GERMANTOWN  AVENUE 
BELOW  FISHER'S  LANE 
PHILADELPHIA 


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BY 

FRANCIS  B.  REEVES 


PREFACE 


The  object  of  this  publication  is  to 
acquaint  our  good  friends,  especially  the 
members  of  Wakefield  Presbyterian  Church 
and  Sunday  School,  with  the  early  history 
of  their  organization  and  its  growth  and 
progress  through  the  fifty-four  years  of  the 
life  of  the  school  and  the  thirty-seven  years 
of  that  of  the  Church. 

A  majority  of  our  members  and  adherents 
having  come  to  us  within  a  few  years  past 
are  not  familiar  with  this  history,  and  I  have 
thought  that  not  only  these,  but  others  who 
can  call  Wakefield  their  old  church-home  will 
be  pleased  to  have  the  narrative  in  book 
form. 

It  is  well  to  look  backward  occasionally 
over  the  path  we  have  trodden  and  retrace 
our  steps  that  we  may  refresh  our  memories 
of  matters  and  things  that  have  been  helpful 
to  us  and  to  others  journeying  with  us,  never 
tarrying  long  to  brood  over  mistakes  and 
failures,  but  always  contemplating  the  better 
things,  especially  such  as  have  blessed  us 
spiritually.  By  this  we  may  gather  courage 
and  strength  to  press  cheerfully  forw^ard 
*^unto  the  prize  of  the  high  calling  of  God  in 
Christ  Jesus. ^' 


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^'Remember  the  days  of  old;  consider 
the  years  of  many  generations;  ask  thy 
father  and  he  will  show  thee;  thy  elders  and 
they  will  tell  thee.''— DeuL  32  :  7. 

At  the  time  of  the  completion  of  the  little 
frame  building  that  was  to  be  our  house  of 
work  and  worship,  December,  1873,  yielding 
to  the  earnest  solicitation  of  William  Adam- 
son,  the  writer  of  this  sketch  was  persuaded 
that  it  would  be  well  to  transfer  his  member- 
ship from  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  of 
German  town  to  the  Wakefield  Church.  Nec- 
essarily inactive  as  a  member  of  the  Second 
Church  because  of  its  location,  a  long  distance 
from  his  home,  this  seemed  a  resistless 
proposition.  A  prior  pleasurable  experience 
as  Superintendent  of  the  Sunday  School  of 
Calvary  (Episcopal)  Church  on  Manheim 
Street,  from  1865  to  1868,  helped  to  impress 
his  mind  with  the  fact  that  lower  Germantown 
was  more  in  need  of  Church  and  Sunday 
School  workers  than  the  upper  district. 
Hence  his  obedience  to  the  call  to  Wakefield. 

Writing  this  just  as  the  year  (1910)  is 
gliding  away  and  having  in  mind  the  hundreds 
of  young  friends  in  our  Sunday  School  who 
may  read  this  book  and  whom  I  would  like 
to  help  to  the  exercise  and  enjoyment  of  a 
deeper  thoughtfulness  through  their  coming 
years,  and  trusting  them  for  ever  better  work 
in  Wakefield's  future  than  the  history  of  our 
bygone  years  unfolds,  I  will  close  this 
Preface  expressing  the  wish  that  every  reader 


CHURCH  AND  SUNDAY  SCHOOL       D 

may  have  many  happy  and  prosperous  New 
Years,  attended  all  the  way  along  by  the 
guidance  and  love  of  ''Him  who  alone  is  able 
to  guard  you  from  stumbling  and  to  set  you 
before  the  presence  of  His  glory  without 
blemish  in  exceeding  joy"   (Jude  24). 

"Trust  ye  in  the  Lord  forever,  for  in  the 
Lord  Jehovah  is  everlasting  strength.'' 

''The  Lord  Jehovah  is  my  strength  and 
my  song.'' 

"We  are  Thine,  do  Thou  befriend  us. 
Be  the  guardian  of  our  way ; 
Keep  Thy  flock,  from  sin  defend  us, 
Seek  us  when  we  go  astray ; 
Blessed  Jesus, 
Hear  Thy  children  when  they  pray." 

Germantown,  Dec.  24,  1910. 

F.  B.  R. 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH 

OF 

^afeefielb  ^reisbpterian  Cfjurti) 

AND 


BY 

FRANCIS  B.  REEVES 


In  writing  this  story  we  must  turn  the 
pages  of  history  backward  to  a  summer 
afternoon  in  August,  1856,  when  a  httle 
Sunday  School,  with  T.  Charlton  Henry  as 
superintendent,  was  started  by  Miss  Mary 
Fisher  (Mrs.  George  W.  Carpenter),  in  one 
of  Fisher's  mills,  called  Wakefield  Mill,  on 
Fisher's  Lane.  Here  was  the  date  and  place 
of  our  birth  as  a  church,  though  for  eighteen 
years  we  were  only  a  mission  Sunday  School, 
cared  for  by  a  band  of  Christian  men  and 
women,  calling  themselves  Presbyterians, 
Friends,  Episcopalians,  Lutherans  and  Bap- 
tists. Wakefield  Presbyterian  Church  is  not 
so  much  the  successor  of  this  little  enterprise 
as  it  is  an  outgrowth,  transplanted  to  higher 
ground  and  nurtured  into  a  healthy,  vigorous 
church  under  Presbyterian  care.  Not  a  single 
one^of  the  present  members  or  attendants  of 


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Wakefield  Church  was  a  participant  in  the 
organization  of  Wakefield  Sunday  School  in 
1856.  We  are  not  in  possession  of  a  complete 
register  of  the  names  of  those  who  were  con- 
nected with  it.  We  have  only  this  brief 
record  in  the  minute  book  of  the  superinten- 
dent: ^^This  afternoon,  at  half-past  three 
o'clock,  commenced  a  new  Sunday  School 
on  Fisher's  Lane.  There  were  present  forty 
male  and  female  children  and  seven  teachers; 
addresses  were  made  by  Abraham  Martin  and 
T.  Charlton  Henry.''  I  have  gathered  from 
records,  and  through  inquiries,  the  names  of 
a  number  of  the  teachers  engaged  in  the  good 
work,  either  at  the  start  or  a  little  later,  as 
follows:  Miss  Elizabeth  P.  Smith,  Frank 
Wister,  Miss  Mehl,  Robert  Pearsoll  Smith, 
Thomas  R.  Fisher,  Horace  J.  Smith,  Miss 
Laura  Gault,  Miss  Sabena  Adamson,  after- 
wards Mrs.  John  Knox  Marshall;  John  Knox 
Marshall,  Miss  Whartenby,  Mr.  Hillis,  Miss 
Mary  E.  Morton,  Miss  Cabeen,  now  Mrs.  J. 
Tatnall  Lea;  Miss  Hannah  Matlack,  after- 
wards Mrs.  John  T.  Roberts ;  John  T.  Roberts, 
Miss  Birchall,  Mrs.  Aucott.  Before  the  close 
of  the  year  I  find  the  name  of  Isaac  C.  Jones 
as  a  teacher.  Mr.  Jones  was  a  member  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Germantown 
and  was  afterward  the  superintendent  of  the 
school  of  the  Westside  Presbyterian  Church, 
Pulaski  Avenue.  His  son.  Woodruff  Jones, 
became  a  teacher  in  1857.  Paul  T.  Jones  and 
Andrew   D.    Cash   are   on   record,    near   the 


CHURCH  AND  SUNDAY  SCHOOL       \) 

beginning,  as  having  addressed  the  school. 
These  two  were  superintendents  in  succession 
of  the  school  of  the  Tenth  Presbyterian 
Church,  Twelfth  and  Walnut  Streets,  Phil- 
adelphia, at  a  time  when  the  writer  of  this 
paper  was  a  scholar  and  teacher  in  that  school. 
The  pulpit  Bible  now  on  our  desk  was  pre- 
sented to  our  school  by  that  school  in  1857, 
as  shown  by  the  inscription  on  the  fly  leaf. 

The  20th  of  December,  1857,  a  new  school 
house  was  opened  on  Fisher's  Lane  with  sixty 
children  present.  Five  days  later,  Christmas 
Day,  seventy-six  boys  and  girls  w^ere  assem- 
bled to  eat  cake  and  candies  and  hear  an 
address  by  James  Bayard,  Esq.  Evangelistic 
meetings,  undenominational  in  character,  were 
occasionally  held,  often  conducted  by  the 
Messrs.  Smith. 

I  ascertain  from  the  superintendent's  min- 
ute book  that  William  Adamson  became 
superintendent  of  the  school  November  6, 
1864.  From  the  beginning  to  1873  the  records 
in  my  possession  are  very  incomplete. 

The  14th  of  October,  1872,  the  Sessional 
Union  of  Germantown,  the  association  of  the 
pastors  and  elders  of  the  three  Presbyterian 
churches,  referred  to  its  Executive  Conamittee 
a  resolution  to  start  a  new  church  in  the 
neighborhood  of  Cayuga  Street.  On  the  13th 
of  January,  1873,  WilHam  Adamson,  chairman 
of  that  committee,  reported  to  the  union  that 
if  they  would  consent  to  the  building  of  a 
frame  chapel  on  Main  Street,  near  Fisher's 


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Lane,  instead  of  on  Cayuga  Street,  he 
would  give  a  lot  of  ground  for  the  pur- 
pose. On  the  12th  of  May,  1873,  the 
committee  reported  that  $5,300  had  been 
subscribed  by  members  of  the  three  churches, 
and  on  motion  of  Mr.  Adamson,  the  new 
enterprise  was  named  ^^The  Wakefield  Pres- 
byterian Church.^'  In  the  Appendix  following 
this  sketch  I  have  inserted  the  Charter  of 
our  church  association.  Of  the  twelve  incor- 
porators signing  the  application  only  one  is 
now  Uving — John  H.  Tingley,  an  elder  of  the 
Mount  Airy  Presbyterian  Church.  December 
16,  1873,  Mr.  Adamson  reported  to  the  union 
that  the  chapel  had  been  completed  at  a  cost 
of  $6000.  On  motion  it  was  resolved  that 
each  of  the  three  churches  be  called  upon  for 
one  hundred  dollars  to  pay  the  current 
expenses  of  the  church.  The  Sunday  School 
was  transferred  from  Fisher^s  Hollow  to  the 
new  chapel  the  following  Sunday.  The  build- 
ing was  dedicated  December  28,  1873. 

On  the  evening  of  May  4,  1874,  Presbytery 
met  and  organized  the  Wakefield  Presbyterian 
Church,  electing  and  installing  William  Adam- 
son and  Francis  B.  Reeves  as  elders,  and 
receiving  into  membership  twenty-two  per- 
sons, as  follows:  William  Adamson,  Eleanor 
F.  Adamson,  Charles  M.  Clemmens,  EUzabeth 
Clemmens,  Dr.  Wilham  R.  deKrafft,  Martha 
deKrafft,  Robert  E.  ElKott,  Margaret  Elliott, 
Mrs.  Mary  A.  Moore  and  daughters,  Anna  L. 
Moore,   Ida  S.   Moore,  Miss   Anna  A.  Miller 


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and  sister  Miss  Mary  A.  Miller,  Mrs.  Amanda 
B.  Mason,  James  McCormick,  William  H. 
Peabody,  Francis  B.  Reeves,  Ellen  B.  Reeves, 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Schick,  A.  J.  Speese,  Mrs. 
A.  J.  Speese,  Mrs.  x\nna  J.  Upham. 

Of  our  present  membership,  numbering 
736,  only  two,  Mrs.  deKrafft  and  Mr.  Reeves, 
were  enrolled  at  the  organization  thirty-six 
years  ago. 

For  about  nine  months  the  session  sup- 
plied the  pulpit,  the  Revs.  George  R.  Moore 
and  N.  L.  Upham  preaching  most  frequently. 
The  first  pastor,  Rev.  Nathaniel  S. 
McFetridge,  v\^as  called  September  8,  1874. 
In  May,  1876,  three  additional  elders  were 
elected — William  H.  Matthews,  William  Kin- 
nier  and  John  Canfield.  Mr.  Canfield  served 
seven  years,  Mr.  Kinnier  thirteen  years  and 
Mr.  Matthews  twentv-eight  years,  until  his 
death,  July  8,  1904.  ^ 

Late  in  1876,  Mr.  Adamson  purchased  a 
small,  oddly  shaped  frame  building  from  the 
Centennial  Exhibition  Company,  had  it  moved 
bodily  from  the  Exhibition  grounds  in  we&t 
Philadelphia  to  our  church  lot,  and  trans- 
ferred the  Sunday  School  Infant  Class  to  it. 
This  served  its  purpose  for  several  years. 
About  this  time  our  Women's  Bible  Class 
No.  1  was  organized,  with  Mrs.  William 
Kershaw  as  its  teacher.  This  great  class  still 
maintains  its  claim  to  be  No.  1,  under  the 
care  of  Mrs.  Adamson,  successor  to  Mrs. 
Reeves,  who  led  the  class  from  1885  to  the 
time  of  her  death,  December,  1901. 


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Dr.  McFetridge  ministered  most  faithfully 
to  our  church  for  more  than  ten  years,  re- 
signing the  pastorate  on  account  of  impaired 
health,  in  April,  1885,  never  fully  recovering 
from  the  effects  of  a  serious  injury  in  a  rail- 
road accident,  which  occurred  in  February, 
1881.  For  seven  months  continuously  there- 
after he  was  absent  from  the  church,  during 
which  period  Rev.  Dr.  Dripps  served  as 
stated  supply  in  his  stead.  Dr.  McFetridge 
passed  away  in  December,  1886,  at  Macalester 
College,  Minn. 

During  the  first  pastorate  322  were  added 
to  the  church  membership,  192  on  profession, 
130  by  certificate  from  other  churches. 

In  the  interim,  before  calling  a  second 
pastor,  eleven  were  added  by  certificates. 

During  the  first  pastorate,  on  the  16th 
of  June,  1879,  our  church  sustained  a  painful 
loss  by  the  death  of  our  founder,  senior  elder 
and  Sunday  School  superintendent,  William 
Adamson.  Sunday,  June  15th,  morning  in 
the  church,  afternoon  in  the  Sunday  School 
and  in  the  evening  again  in  church,  he  was 
in  his  usual  exuberant  spirits  and  best  of 
health.  The  next  morning,  at  8  o'clock,  he 
entered  into  the  ^^rest  that  remaineth  for  the 
people  of  God.''  To  a  friend  who  that 
morning  told  me  of  his  sudden  death,  I  said, 
^^This  is  a  fatal  blow  to  Wakefield  Church," 
for  we  had  been  planning  to  build  a  substan- 
tial stone  church  edifice,  as  we  were  rapidly 
outgrowing  our  little  wooden  chapel,  and  I 


CHURCH  AND  SUNDAY  SCHOOL      13 

felt  that  we  could  not  do  this  without  him. 
But  Mr.  Adamson's  spirit  was  with  us — the 
Lord,  in  whom  he  trusted,  helped  us,  and  the 
work,  though  delayed,  was  in  due  time  com- 
pleted. Mr.  Adamson^s  family  fulfilled  all 
his  promises,  which  included  the  gift  of  lot 
of  ground  and  six  thousand  dollars  in  money. 
On  the  1st  of  April,  1877,  Mr.  Adamson 
wrote  in  his  superintendent's  record,    ^^Mr. 

has  given  up  his  class;  our  failings 

and  failures  are  so  many  that  our  work  would 
utterly  fail,  only  it  is  the  Lord's. ''  This 
simple  record  throws  a  bright  beam  of  light 
upon  the  secret  of  William  Adamson's  con- 
secration to  the  Master's  service  and  his 
divine  call  to  go  to  work  in  this  vineyard  of 
the  Master's  planting. 

July,  1879,  the  writer,  then  teacher  of  a 
young  ladies'  Bible  class,  was  elected  super- 
intendent of  the  school. 

November  1,  1880,  Charles  B.  Adamson 
was  elected  superintendent  of  the  Primary 
Department,  and  from  that  day  to  this  has 
discharged  the  duties  of  that  office  and  of 
others  in  the  church  with  efficiency  and 
fideUty. 

The  corner-stone  of  the  new  church  build- 
ing was  laid  September  11,  1880,  and  the 
house,  completed  at  a  cost  of  about  $30,000, 
was  dedicated,  free  of  debt,  September  17, 
1882.  The  large  stained-glass  window  on 
the  northwest  side,  representing  the  Good 
Shepherd  and  flock,  in  memory  of  William 


14  WAKEFIELD    PRESBYTERIAN 

Adamson,  was  presented  by  Mrs.  Adamson. 
That  on  the  southeast  side,  a  fine  picture  of 
Christ  receiving  and  blessing  Uttle  children, 
a  memorial  of  three  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Reeves,  was  their  gift  to  the  church.  The 
circular  window  over  the  chancel  was  given 
by  Mrs.  Harriet  L.  Thompson  as  a  memorial 
to  her  daughter  Caroline.  The  triangular 
window  over  the  central  entrance,  represen- 
tative of  the  Virgin  Mary  and  the  Infant 
Christ,  was  presented  by  Mr.  Isajaka,  a 
Japanese  student,  then  living  with  our  minis- 
ter, Mr.  McFetridge.  A  window  in  memory 
of  Mr.  McFetridge,  given  by  his  wife  for  the 
chapel,  was  moved  upon  the  recent  rebuilding 
of  the  chapel  to  the  church  and  is  now  in  the 
choir  enclosure. 

In  May,  1883,  Charles  B.  Adamson  was 
elected  a  ruling  elder.  The  18th  of  October, 
1885,  Rev.  A.  Wilson  Clokey  was  called  to  the 
pastorate,  the  six  months  intervening  after 
Dr.  McFetridge^s  resignation  having  been 
spent,  as  usual,  in  looking  for  a  John  Knox 
or  a  Jonathan  Edwards.  Mr.  Clokey  resigned 
in  May,  1888.  During  this  pastorate  sixty 
were  received  on  profession  of  faith  and 
fifty  by  letter. 

Using  the  original  wooden  chapel  for 
school  and  prayer  meetings  up  to  1887  and 
requiring  much  more  room,  we  built  the 
stone  chapel  back  of  the  church.  The  5th 
of  June  that  year  the  last  meeting  of  our 
Sunday  School  was  held  in  the  dear  old  house. 


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Some  of  the  oldest  of  our  favorite  hymns 
were  printed  on  slips  and  sung.  Many  a 
voice  trembled  with  emotion,  but  we  mastered 
our  feelings  and  slowly  wandered  off  as  school 
closed,  to  our  homes.  Our  new  building 
was  dedicated  the  next  Sunday,  Children's 
Day,  with  an  impressive  and  joyous  service 
by  the  school.  An  address  was  made  by 
Rev.  Dr.  Charles  Wood. 

On  January  23,  1889,  Rev.  David  W. 
Woods  was  called,  and  on  April  18, 1889,  was  in- 
stalled as  pastor  and  continued  with  us  two  and 
a  half  years,  an  earnest,  faithful  worker  for  the 
peace  and  spiritual  prosperity  of  the  church. 
During  his  pastorate  eighty-eight  were  added 
to  the  church  roll,  thirty-three  by  profession 
and  fifty-five  by  letters  from  other  churches. 
It  was  a  pleasure  to  have  Mr.  Woods  to  join 
with  us  in  the  quarter-century  celebration 
in  May,  1899.  We  congratulate  Mr.  Woods 
in  that,  since  he  left  us,  he  has  taken  to 
himself  a  wife.  Some  churches  try  to  get 
along  with  a  bachelor  pastor,  but  it  is  an 
awfully  hard  thing  to  do.  It  is  bad  for  the 
church,  but  it  is  worse  for  the  minister 
himself.  The  minister  should  be  an  ensample 
to  the  flock.  We  know  by  happy  experience 
the  value  of  a  pastor's  good  wife. 

In  May,  1889,  Howard  Yonker  and  George 
H.  Deacon  were  elected  ruling  elders.  In 
May,  1890,  WilUam  T.  Tilden  was  elected  to 
the  eldership.  Mr.  Yonker  passed  away 
March  12,  1892,  deeply  lamented,  for  he  was 


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a  brother  beloved.  In  November,  1889,  a 
new  organ  was  put  in  the  church  at  a  cost 
of  $5,125. 

Rev.  Thomas  G.  F.  Hill  was  installed  as 
pastor  April  30,  1893,  and,  with  signal  abihty 
as  a  preacher,  devoted  himself  faithfully  to 
his  calling  until  death  translated  him  to  the 
Church  triumphant  November  22,  1899.  Dur- 
ing his  pastorate  there  were  received  into 
church  membership  132  by  profession  and 
137  by  letters  from  other  churches. 

Rev.  F.  Cornwell  Jennings  succeeded  to 
the  pastorate  and  was  installed  September 
26,  1900,  then  in  the  twenty-eighth  year  of 
his  age,  and  continued  to  serve  as  our  beloved 
brother,  friend  and  minister  until  death 
claimed  him,  February  4,  1907.  Loving  mem- 
orial services  were  held  in  the  church,  Sunday, 
February  10,  and  in  the  chapel,  Wednesday, 
February  13. 

During  Mr.  Jennings'  active  ministry  we 
received  into  church  membership  128  persons 
by  profession  and  165  by  letters  from  other 
churches. 

In  January,  1906,  and  for  a  full  year 
thereafter,  during  the  illness  and  absence  of 
Mr.  Jennings,  we  had  as  stated  supply 
Rev.  Boudinot  Seeley,  Jr.,  of  Wilmington, 
Del.  Electing  him  pastor  March,  1907,  he 
was  installed  June  12,  1907. 

October  11,  1908,  John  H.  Lauber  and 
Dr.  John  R.  Minehart  were  ordained  elders. 

Trusted  as  a  counsellor  and  beloved  as 


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pastor,  Mr.  Seeley  continued  his  ministry 
with  us  until  February  1,  1910,  when,  having 
accepted  a  call  to  organize  a  new  church  in 
Rose  City  Park,  near  Portland,  Ore.,  once 
his  home  city,  we  were  called  to  part.  There 
were  added  to  our  membership  during  Mr. 
Seeley's  time  as  stated  supply  and  pastor 
178  on  confession  of  faith  and  144  by  letter 
from  other  churches. 

Our  pastor  of  to-day.  Rev.  Hugh  B. 
McCrone,  was  elected  at  a  congregational 
meeting  June  1,  1910.  At  this  meeting  there 
was  a  large  attendance.  A  unique  form  of 
nomination  and  election  was  adopted  and 
carried  out,  the  presentation  of  a  ticket  upon 
which  were  printed  the  names  of  eight  candi- 
dates in  the  order  of  their  coming  to  preach 
for  us — all  excellent  men  and  good  preachers. 
The  voters  marked  upon  this  ticket  the  name 
of  one  as  their  first  choice.  Mr.  McCrone 
on  first  ballot  received  more  votes  than  all 
the  others  combined  and  was  then  by  acclama- 
tion elected  unanimously.  He  was  installed 
by  Presbytery  the  29  th  of  the  following 
September,  and  is  now  giving  us  unfailing 
evidence  of  his  devotion  and  constancy  in 
all  the  various  departments  of  the  church, 
its  several  societies  and  the  Sunday  SchooL 

While,  since  the  organization  of  our  church, 
we  have  elected  six  pastors,  our  Sunday 
School  has  had  but  two  superintendents,  the 
present  incumbent  of  the  office,  being  now  in 
his  thirty-second  official  year.     His  view  of 


18  WAKEFIELD    PRESBYTERIAN 

the  case  is  that  this  term  is  quite  as  long  as 
it  should  be.  The  growth  of  the  school  has 
been  constant  and  is  not  abating,  but  rather 
augmenting.  Its  total  membership  now  num- 
bers 951.  A  list  of  its  officers  and  teachers 
is  to  be  found  in  the  Appendix,  pp.  41,  42. 

A  most  important  recent  accomplishment 
of  our  career  was  the  great  enlargement  of 
our  Chapel,  or  Sunday  School  Building,  as  it 
is  often  called,  at  a  cost  of  $19,563.32.  Of 
this  amount,  members  of  the  Sunday  School 
have  contributed  up  to  this  writing  $9,600.60. 
Now  f^we  fare  enjoying, |for  congregational, 
school,  and  social  meetings  a  very  commo- 
dious house,  beautiful  in  structure  and  con- 
venient in  all  respects.  Prior  to  this  enlarge- 
ment there  was  no  direct  communication 
between  the  church  proper  and  the  chapel. 
Now  they  are  joined  together.  Besides  the 
main  audience-room  and  its  capacious  galler- 
ies, with  seating  capacity  for  more  than  seven 
hundred,  and  its  many  compartments  for 
classes,  it  contains  a  large  room  for  the 
Primary  Class  of  two  hundred  scholars; 
another  for  the  '^Little  Beginners,^'  now 
numbering  more  than  one  hundred ;  a  session 
room  of  good  dimensions,  now  occupied 
Sunday  afternoons  by  our  Teacher-Training 
Class ;  and  a  Library  room  fitted  for  shelving 
1,000  volumes.  A  highly  prized  feature  is 
the  large  north  window,  beautifully  portray- 
ing the  resurrection  of  our  Lord,  presented 
by  Class  No.   1   in  loving  memory  of  their 


CHURCH  AND  SUNDAY  SCHOOL      19 

former  teacher  of  many  years — 1885  to 
1901— Mrs.  Eilen  B.  Reeves. 

A  modern  system  for  heating  and  ven- 
tilating has  been  installed,  insuring  health- 
fulness  and  comfort.  Abundant  sunshine  by 
day  and  electric-lights  by  night  make  it 
always  a  bright,  cheery  house. 

A  well-equipped  kitchen  and  pantry  serve 
well  in  the  contribution  of  comforts  to  the 
attendants  at  class  and  society  banquets, 
brotherhood  meetings,  and  to  occasional  enter- 
tainments claiming  our  hospitality,  and  at 
times  our  co-operation  in  some  commendable 
religious  or  charitable  work.  These  convoca- 
tions are  ofttimes  enlivened  by  our  School 
orchestra  under  the  leadership  of  our  choir- 
master, J.  Henry  Renton,  and  our  faithful 
choir  of  twenty-five  voices. 

Our  church  is  sustained  in  all  its  expenses, 
not  by  pew  rents,  but  wholly  by  voluntary 
subscriptions  payable  at  such  regular  inter- 
vals as  subscribers  may  choose.  Our  bene- 
factions toward  the  work  of  the  church  at 
large,  home  and  foreign  missions,  ministerial 
relief,  etc.,  are  also  given  by  the  same  sys- 
tematic subscription  plan.  All  that  is  ex- 
pected is  that  we  all,  according  to  our  ability, 
will  regard  it  as  a  duty  and  a  pleasure  to  con- 
tribute to  all  these  objects. 

I  close  this  sketch  of  the  history  of  our 
beloved  Wakefield,  conscious  of  the  fact  that 
I  have  omitted  much  that  should  be  written, 
for  the  record  of  the  affection  and  loyalty 


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of  the  great  body  of  our  church  membership 
has  not  been  touched.  The  faithful  devotion 
of  the  laymen  and  of  the  lay  women  of  our 
church  and  of  our  young  people  deserves  a 
volume  of  commendation.  Without  their 
support  in  church  and  Sunday  School  our 
joy  would  not  be  so  full.  It  must  suffice  to 
pay  a  brief  tribute  to  the  Ladies'  Pastoral 
Aid  Society,  who  labor  steadily  in  the  up- 
holding of  the  pastor's  hands  and  in  sup- 
plementing the  work  of  the  elders,  indeed  in 
the  effectual  doing  of  much  of  the  work  that 
in  the  olden  days  was  done  personally  by  the 
elders;  to  the  Women's  Missionary  Society, 
always  diligent  in  the  Master's  Service  at 
home  and  abroad ;  to  the  Wakefield  Brother- 
hood; the  Men's  Organized  Bible  Classes ;  the 
Church  Choir  and  the  Sunday  School  Orches- 
tra, and  to  the  young  v^omen  and  young 
men  helpers  in  Church  and  Sunday  School. 
Devotion  to  duty  in  the  exercise  of  cheerful- 
ness and  of  steadiness  of  purpose  is  the  rule 
among  our  Christian  Endeavor  and  other 
young  people's  societies,  and  our  large 
force  of  Sunday  School  teachers,  secretaries 
and  librarians  and  our  never-found-wanting 
sexton  now  in  his  twenty-seventh  year  of 
service.  Lastly  and  above  all,  our  tribute 
of  praise  and  thanksgiving  is  due  to  God, 
in  whom  alone  is  our  strength,  our  trust  and 
our  hope.  I  would  repeat  Mr.  William  Adam- 
son's  words,  ''Our  work  would  utterly  fail, 
only  it  is  the  Lord's." 


CHURCH  AND  SUNDAY  SCHOOL      21 

'^Except  the  Lord  build  the  house,  they 
labor  in  vain  that  build  it." 

^^As  the  mountains  are  round  about 
Jerusalem,  so  the  Lord  is  round  about  His 
people  from  this  time  forth  and  forevermore." 

''Only  fear  the  Lord,  and  serve  Him  in 
truth  with  all  your  heart :  for  consider  how 
great  things  he  hath  done  for  you." 

''Not  unto  us,  0  Lord,  not  unto  us,  but 
unto  Thy  name  give  glory  for  Thy  loving 
kindness  and  for  Thv  truth's  sake." 


22  WAKEFIELD    PRESBYTERIAN 


APPENDIX 


Contributions 


By  the  Church,  Sunday  School  and  their  several  Socie- 
ties, FOR  the    Year,  as  reported  to  Presbytery 
April,  1910. 

By  the  Church. 

To  the    Presbyterian    Board    of    Home 

Missions S500.00 

"  the   Presbyterian   Board   of   Foreign 

Missions 600.00 

"  the    Presbyterian   Board   of   Educa- 
tion   50.00 

"  the    Presbyterian    Board   of   Church 

Erection .^ 40.00 

"  the  Presbyterian  Board  of  Ministerial 

Relief.": 100.00 

*'  the  Presbyterian  Board  for  Freedmen  100.00 

"  the   Presbyterian   Board   for  Aid  of 

Colleges 40.00 

"  the  Presbyterian  Committee  on  Tem- 
perance   10.00 

"  the  Presbyterian  Anti-Saloon  I.eague.  25.00 

For  General  Assembly  Assessment 75.84 

To  the  American  Tract  Society 25.00 

"  the  Germantown  Hospital 40.87 

"  the  American  Bible  Society 25.00 

"  the  Pennsylvania  Bible  Society 10 .  00 

"  Synodical  Sustentation 75.00 

'^  Synodical    Sustentation,  Uiiion    Ser- 

\ice 20.73 

"  Italian  Mission  Germantown 250.00 

"  Peoples  Mission    (Colored)   German- 
town 25.00 

"  Fisher's  Hollow  Italian  Mission 25.00 

"  Wakefield's  Special  Aid 200.00 

('  Congregational  Expenses 7,228.65 

$9,466.09 


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By  the  Sunday  School. 

To  tlie  Women's  Board  of  Home  Mis- 
sions   $25.00 

' '  Presbyterian  Home  for  Aged  Couples. .  10 .  00 

"  Italian  Mission,  Germantown.. 20.00 

"  Presbyterian  Home  for  Widows  and 

Single  Women 10.00 

"  Presbyterian  Orphanage 110.34 

' '  Women's  Board  Foreign  Missions 55 .  00 

•'  Parish  Abroad 5.00 

"  Dr.  Browning,  Chile 13.50 

"  D.  H.  Lee,  India 25.00 

*'  Presbyterian  Board  Publication  and 

S.  S.  Work 50.00 

"  Presbyterian  Board  for  Freedmen 20.00 

"  Germantown  Hospital 75.00 

"  School  Hindman,  Ky 25.00 

"  Seaside  Home  for  Women  and  Chil- 
dren   10.00 

"  Florence  Crittenden  Home 10.00 

"  Society   for   Protection    of    Children 

from  Cruelty 10.00 

"  \Vhosoever  Gospel  Mission,  German- 
town 15.00 

"  Bible  Training  School,  Albany,  Ga 20.00 

"  General  Expenses 1,138.73 

$1,647.57 

By  Societies  of  Church. 

The  Women's  Society  to  Women's  Board 

Home  Missions S154.00 

The  Senior  C.   E.  Society  to  Women's 

Board  Home  Missions 15.00 

The  Junior  C.   E.  Society  to  Women's 

Board  Home  Missions 11.00 

The     Women's     Society     to     Women's 

Board  Foreign  Missions 102.00 

The  Senior  C.  E.  Society  to  Women's 

Board  Foreign  Missions 100.00 

The  Senior  C.  E.  Society  Miscellaneous 55 .00 

Tlie  Intermediate  C.  E.  Society  Women's 

Board  Foreign  Missions 13.00 

The    Jimior    C.    E.    Society    Women's 

Board  Foreign  Missions 22.00 

The  Woman's  Society,  Miscellaneous 69 .  40 

The  W.  W.  W.  Society,  Miscellaneous. ...  69 . 00 

$610.40 


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Ck)ntributed  by  the  Church $9,466.09 

"    "    Sunday  School 1,647.57 

"     "    Societies 610.40 

$11,724.06 

Enlargement  of  Chapel  by  Church  and 

School 16,790.41 


Total $28,514.47 


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enrollment  of  Mtmhtvi 

December,  1910. 


Abbott,  Mrs.  Calviii 
Adams,  Miss  Helen  B. 
"     Mr.  Harvey  F. 
"     Mrs.  Harvey  F. 
"     Miss  Nellie  M. 
Adamson,  Mr.  Charles  B 
"     Mrs.  Charles  B. 
"     Miss  Lucia 
"     Mr.  William 
"     Mrs,  Frances 
"     Mr.  James  M. 
"     Mrs.  James  M. 
"     Miss  Madeleine 
"     Miss  Sabena  Agnes 
''     Mr.  Prescott 
"     Mrs.  Prescott 
"     Miss  Agnes  Marguerite 
Alexander,  Mr.  Robert 

"     Mrs.  Robert 
Allen.  Mr.  Thomas 
"     Mrs.  Thomas 
"     Miss  Elizabeth  B. 
Allison,  Mr.  J.  Roland 
Alteneder,  Miss  Mary  C. 
"     Mr.  Theodore  G. 
"     Miss  Bertha  A. 
"     Miss  Louise  E. 
"     Miss  Emma  C. 
Anderson,  Mr.  John  A. 

"     Mrs.  John  A. 
Armstrong,  Mr.  John  H 

''     Mrs.  John  H. 
Ashbey,  Mr.  Winfield  S. 
"     Mrs.  Winfield  S. 
"     Mr.  Dwight  Ransford 
Ashcraft,  Mrs.  Louise  M. 
"     Mr.  James  M. 
"     Miss  Lydia  L. 
Asquith,  Miss  Flora  A. 


Bailey,  iSliss  Emma  J. 
"     Miss  Martha 
"     Miss  Caroline  M. 
"    Miss  Emma  D. 
Baily,  Mr.  Samuel  L,,  Jr. 
"     Mrs.  Samuel  L.,  Jr. 
Baird,  Mr.  Morris  J. 

'\    Miss  Ethel  Irene 
Barber,  Miss  Anna  E. 

**     Mr.  John  P. 
Barlow,  Mrs.  Jacob 
"     Mr.  John  T.  F. 
"     Mrs.  John  T.  F. 
Barrett,  Mrs.  Thomas 
Barron,  Mrs.  Alison  P 
"     ]\Iiss  Helen  A. 
"    Miss  Elsie  M. 
Barry,  Mrs.  John  H 
Barton,  Miss  Anna 
"     Mr.  Harvey  J 
"     Miss  Helen  E. 
Bary,  Mr.  Henry  A. 
"     Mrs.  Henry  A 
Bayer,  Miss  Ida  H. 
Beaver,  Mrs.  Robert 
Beidehnan,  Miss  Jane  M, 
Belknap,  Mrs.  Mary  F. 
Best,  Mrs.  John 
Betts,  Mr.  Jolin  C. 
"     Mrs.  John  C 
"     MissNeUie 
Be\ill,  Mrs.  J.  Branch 
Blaine,  Miss  Alice  M. 
BIyth,  Mr.  William 
"     Mrs.  William 
"     Mr.  George 
"     Mr.  James  A. 
"     Miss  Elizabeth  A. 
Bockman,  Mrs.  William 


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WAKEFIELD    PRESBYTERIAN 


Boggs,  Mr.  Georg3  W. 

"     Mrs.  Georg3  W. 

"     Miss  Margaret  S. 

"     Miss  Helen  L. 

"     Miss  Mary  D. 

"     Miss  Anna  F. 
Bolton,  Mr.  A.  Elmer 

"     Mrs.  A.  Elmer 
Borchers,  Roland  Winfield  Carl 
Borden,  Mr.  William  N. 

"     Mrs.  William  N. 

"     Miss  Eleanor  W. 

"     Mr.  Jolin  M. 

"     Mr.  Frank  H. 
Bowyer,  Mrs.  Irving  W. 
Boyd,  Mrs.  Harry 
Bridge,  Mrs.  Margaret 
Bringhurst,  Mrs.  Charles  S. 
Broadbent,  Mr.  Harold  Charles 
Brown,  Mr.  Henry  O. 

"     Mrs.  Henry  O. 

"     Miss  Sarah  E. 

"     Mrs.  William  J. 

"     Miss  Emily  T. 

"     Miss  A.  Isabella 
Buchanan,  Mrs.  Catherine 

"     Miss  Rachel  C. 

"     Mrs.  William 

"     Miss  Hannah  A. 

"     Mr.  Harry  P. 
Burk,  Mr.  Alfred  G. 

"     Mrs.  Alfred  G. 
Burkholder,  Miss  Ethel  Rae 
Burlock,  Mr.  William  L.,  Jr. 

"  Mrs.  William  L.,  Jr. 
Buslmell,  Mr.  Edward  R. 
Butler,  Mr.  Josepli 

"     Mrs.  Joseph 

"     Mr.  Edward 

"     Mrs.  Thomas 

Cadmus,  Mr.  Charles  W. 

"     Mrs.  Charles  W. 
Camp,  Miss  Anna  M. 
Campbell,  Mr.  Howard  D. 
Chillman,  Mr.  James  H. 

"     Mrs.  James  H. 

"     Mr.  James  H.,  Jr. 
Cholerton,  Mrs.  Edward  M. 
Chormann,  Mr.  William  IV. 


Clarke,  Mrs.  Sarah  A. 

"     Mrs.  George  H. 

"     Miss  Elizabeth  B. 

"     Mr.  Louis  E. 
Clayton,  Miss  Ella  H. 

"     Mr.  Charles  M.,  Jr. 

"     Mr.  William 

"     Mrs.  William 
Cleeland,  Mr.  John  R. 

"     Miss  Ruth 

"     Mr.  William  Jay 

"     Mrs.  William  Jay 
Clemens,  Mr.  James  H. 
Clemmens,  Miss  Emma  M 
Clugston,  Mr.  John 

"     Mrs.  John 
Conner,  Mrs.  William 

"     Miss  Marguerite  Benson 

"     Mr.  Elmer  Frazier 
Cook,  Mrs.  Charles  G. 
Cooker,  Mr.  Jolm  H. 

"     Mrs.  John  H. 
Copestick,  Mrs.  F.  O. 
Corkery,  Mrs.  Anne  E.  L. 
Coulter,  Mrs.  Susan  D. 

"     Dr.  Jolin  Stanley 
Craig,  Mr.  Andrew 
Crawford,  Mrs.  Maggie  F 

"     Miss  Charlotte  C. 
Creamer,  Mrs.  H.  W. 
Crosscup,  Mr.  Henry 

"     Mrs.  Henry 
Cuming,  Mr.  Edward  F 

'^     Mrs.  Edward  F. 

Davenport,  Mr.  William 

"     Miss  Mabel  M. 
Davidson,  Mr.  Hercules 

"     Mrs.  Hercules 
Deacon,  Mr.  George  H. 

"     Mrs.  George  H. 

"     Mr.  Gerald  H. 
De  Baugh,  Miss  Charlotte  E 
Deens,  Mr.  George 

"     Mrs.  George 
DeKalb,  Mr.  Allen  F. 

"     Mrs.  Allen  F. 
deKrafTt,  Mrs.  Martha  L. 

"     Mr.  WilUam 

"     Miss  A.  Marguerite 


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27 


De\Tne,  Mrs.  John 

"     Miss  Edith 
Dilling,  Mrs.  Alfred 
Dougherty,  Miss  Edith  Mae 
Douglass,  Mr,  Robert 

"     Miss  Martha 

"     Miss  Rebecca 
Drysdale,  Mr.  Alexander  B. 

"     Mrs.  Alexander  B. 

"     Miss  Anna 

"     Mr.  Bruce 

"     Mr.  Wilham  M. 
Duffey,  Mr.  Neal  Edward 

"     Mrs.  Neal  Edward 

"     Miss  Cora 

"     Mr.  Edward  Scott 

"     Miss  Alice 

"     Miss  Edith  R. 
Duval,  Mr.  Jolui  W. 

Eddowes,  Mr.  Archie  B. 

"     Mrs.  Archie  B. 
Eichel,  Miss  Julia  K. 

"     Miss  Julia  Katie  Elsa 
Eisele,  Mr.  Joseph  B. 
Eisenbrey,  Miss  Mabel  E. 
Eldridge,  Mr.  William  J. 

"     Mrs.  William  J. 

"     EdnaS. 

"     Evelyn  M. 
Ellis,  Miss  Elizabeth  A 
English,  Mrs.  A.  E. 

Fahs,  Mr.  Franldin  W\ 
"     Mrs.  Franklin  W. 

Ferber,  Miss  Annie  E. 
"     Miss  Jennie 

Foltz,  Mr.  George  E. 
"     Mrs.  George  E. 

Fowler,  Mr.  William  Sydney 

Fraser,  Mr.  Jolin  W. 

Freed,  :Miss  Mabel  M. 

Frick,  Mrs.  John 

Yry,  Mr.  Samuel  L. 

Fidlmore,  Miss  Mary  E. 

Funnell,  Miss  Louisa  S. 

Galey,  Miss  Marguerite  C. 
Garber,  Mrs.  Clinton  T. 
Geiger,  Mrs.  Frederick 


Gensbauer,  Mrs.  Rebecca  D. 
Gentel,  Mr.  Harry  S, 
Glassey,  Mr.  J.  Howard 

"     Mrs.  J.  Howard 
Glendenning,  Mr.  Frederick  G, 

"     Mrs.  Frederick  G. 

"     Mr.  John  F. 
Gloecloier,  Miss  Helene  S 
Godshalk,  Mr.  Walter  L. 
Goodwin,  Mrs.  Emma  E. 

"     Miss  Lillie  I. 
Gray,  Mr.  Jacob  F. 

"     Mrs.  Jacob  F. 

"     Mrs.  Samuel  R. 
Grieb,  Mrs.  Jacob  D. 

"     Miss  Mabel  Shaw 
Griffith,  Mrs.  Elwood  R. 
Gross,  Mr.  Thomas  F. 

"     Mrs.  Thomas  F. 

"     Mr.  Charles  F. 

"     Mrs.  Charles  F. 

"     Mr.  D.  Stanley 
Gundesen,  Mr.  William  H. 

Haig,  Mrs.  ^lary 
Haines,  Mr.  Arthur 
"     Mrs.  Arthur 
"     Mr.  Amos  Henry 

"  Mrs.  Amos  Henry 
Hamilton,  Mr.  William 
Hanna,  Miss  Mary  V. 

"     Miss  Mildred  Roberta 

"     Mrs.  Robert  A. 
Hargrave,  Mrs.  Thomas 

"     Mr.  WiUiam 

"     Mr.  George  H. 
Harte,  Miss  Emma  C. 
Hartzell,  Miss  Mabel  O. 
Hasse,  Mr.  Edward  J. 

"     Mrs.  Edward  J. 
Hayward,  Mr.  William  H   B 

"     Mr.  Irby  A. 
Heilemann,  Mrs,  John  M. 
Heins,  Miss  Celeste  L. 
Hemphill,  Miss  Rebecca  B. 

"     Miss  Bessie  J. 
Henderson,  Mr.  George 

"    Mrs.  George 

"     Mr.  W.Alan 

"     Mr.  George  D. 


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Hendrickson,  Mr.  Samuel  A. 

"     Mrs.  Samuel  A. 

"     Miss  Amanda 
Hendrie,  Mr.  Archibald  H. 

"     Mrs.  Archibald  H. 

"     Mr.  John  V. 
Henson,  Dr.  Douglas  O. 
Hera,  Mrs.  .\lbert 

"     Mr.  Albert  Earle 

"     Miss  Elizabeth  E. 
Hess,  Mr.  WilHam  H. 

"     Mrs.  William  H. 
Hewitt,  Miss  Effie  A. 
Hiestand,  Mrs.  John  S. 
Higgins,  Mrs.  Thos.  A. 
Hill,  Prof.  James  M. 
Hippler,  Mr.  Harry  D.  L. 

"     Mrs.  Harry  D.  L. 
Hirst,  Mr.  Waldron 

"     Mrs.  Waldron 
Hoff,  Mr.  Frank  B. 

"     Mrs.  Frank  B. 

"     Mr.  J.  Marshall 
Hoffman,  Mr.  Louis  F. 

"     Miss  Viola 
Hogg,  Mr.  Frederick  S. 

"     Mrs.  Frederick  vS. 
Hook,  Mr.  Frank  H. 
Horn,  Mr.  J.  Ell  wood 

"     Miss  Lillian  M. 
Home,  Miss  Gertrude  E. 
Hudtwalcher,  Mr.  F.  William 

"     Mrs.  F.  William 
Hmit,  Mr.  Richard  E.,  3d 
Hunter,  Mr.  Peter 

"     Mrs.  Peter 

"     Mrs.  Robert 

"     Mr.  Robert,  Jr. 

"     Mrs.  Robert,  Jr. 

"     Mr.  Robert  H 

"     Mrs.  Robert  H. 

"     Mr.  William  M. 
Hutt,  Miss  Emma  L. 

Ireland,  Mr.  Andrew 
Mrs.  Andrew 
Mr.  William 
Mrs.  William 
Miss  Margaret 
Mr.  John  Alexander 
5Irs.  John  Alexander 


Jackson,  Mrs.  Margaret 

"     Mr.  Arthur  R. 
Jatho,  Mr.  Theodore  P. 

"     Mrs.  Theodore  P. 

"     Miss  Edna  R. 

"  Miss  Bertha  A. 
Jester,  Miss  Mary  N. 
Johnson,  Miss  Bessie  M. 

"     Mrs.  Anna  J. 

"     Miss  Annie  K. 

"     Miss  Maria  Y. 

"    Miss  H.  Elizabeth 

"     Miss  Alice  K. 
Johnstone,  Miss  Kathryn  S. 
Jones,  Mrs.  Cornelius  M. 

"     Miss  Meta  C. 

"     Mr.  Adolph  H.  R. 

"     Mrs.  Adolph  H.  R. 

"     Miss  Lulu  G. 
Jost,  Mrs.  C.  Harry 

"     Mr.  Laurance  C. 

Karker,  Mr.  Frank  C. 
Kam,  Mrs.  Kate  Caroline 
Keller,  Mr.  William  H. 
Kenan,  Miss  Blanche  W. 

"     Miss  Ophelia  E. 
Kerns,  Mr.  Daniel  R. 

"     Mrs.  Daniel  R. 
Kerr,  Mrs.  J.  Edward 
Kershaw,  Prof.  William 

"     Mrs,  William 

"     Miss  Eleanor  M. 

"     Mr.  W.  Ernest 
Kettyle,  Mr.  Robert  S. 
Keyser,  Mrs.  Harry  R. 
King,  Miss  Lillian  I. 
Ivirkpatrick,  Mr.  William  J. 

"  Mrs.  William  J. 
Klauke,  Mr.  Louis 

"    Mrs.  Louis 
Klein,  Mrs.  C.  S. 

"     Miss  Edith  E. 
Ivnipe,  Mrs.  Franklin  P. 
Kniveton,  Miss  Mary  A. 

"  Miss  Temperance 
Kolb,  Miss  Sarah  Ethel 
Kraus,  Miss  Anna  K. 

"     Miss  Wilhelmina  L. 
Krebs,  Miss  Marie 
Kulp,  Miss  Elsie 


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Laging,  Mrs.  William  C, 
Lang,  Miss  Margaretta 

"     Mr.  Charles  H.,  Jr. 
Lauber,  Mr.  John  H. 

"     Mrs.  John  H. 

"     Mr.  Harry  M.  W. 
Lee,  Mrs.  Martha 

"     Miss  Anna  M. 
Leech,  IVIiss  Anna  B, 

"     Mr.  Edward  P. 
Lehman,  Miss  Helen 
Lieberman,  Mrs.  J.  Hermann 
Lister,  Mrs.  Edwin  T. 
Little,  Miss  Annie 

"     Miss  Helen 

"     Miss  EHzabeth 
Lock,  Mrs.  William  K. 

"     Mr.  W.  Raughley 
Lodge,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 

*'     Mr.  Grover  Cleveland 

"     Mrs.  Grover  Cleveland 
Loree,  Mrs.  William  H. 
Lowrey,  Mrs.  Louisa 

"     Miss  Sarah  Elizabeth. 
Lukens,  Miss  Miriam  B. 

MacDuffee,  Miss  Mary  J.,  M.D. 
MacHarg,  Miss  Julia  N. 

"    Miss  Jessie  M. 
McCabe,  Mr.  John  D. 
McClelland,  Miss  Margaret 
McClure,  Miss  Frances  C. 
McCrone,  Mrs.  Hugh  B. 
McFarland,  Miss  Nellie  A. 
McKinney,  Mrs.  Charles  M. 
McLean,  Mr.  Bamet  W. 

"     Mrs.  Bamet  W. 

"     Mr.  Bamet  W.,  Jr. 
McMurray,  Mr.  Joseph,  Jr. 

"     Mrs.  Joseph,  Jr. 
Magill,  Miss  Georgina 

""    Mr.  Jolm  T. 

"     Mrs.  John  T. 

"     Mr.  Samuel  J. 

"     Mrs.  Samuel  J. 

"     Mr.  David  P. 

"     Mr.  Samuel  J.,  Jr. 
Mahood,  Mr.  William  James 

"     Mrs.  William  James 
Maloney,  Miss  Mary  F. 


Marshall,  Mr.  Charles  G. 

"    Mrs.  Charles  G. 

"     Mr.  Charles  H. 

"     Mrs.  Charles  H. 
Martin,  Miss  Ethel  B. 

"     Mrs.  Frank 

"     Mr.  Robert  Campbell 

"     Mrs.  Robert  Campbell 

"    Miss  Mary  B. 

"     Miss  Helen  De  C. 

"     Miss  Carolina  C. 
Masland,  Mrs.  Mary  G. 
Mathews,  Mrs.  W.  Frank 
Matthews,  Miss  Marian  W. 

"     Miss  Eva  W. 

"     Mr.  Charles  W. 

"     Mr.  Stacy  R. 

"     Mr.  Allen  M. 

"     Mrs.  AUen  M. 
Maull,  Mrs.  John  J. 
Mawhinney,  Mr.  Frank  D. 
Mays,  Mrs.  Joseph  P. 
Maxwell,  Miss  Emma  H. 
Mechling,  Mrs.  Benj.  S. 
Meyers,  Miss  Anna  E. 

"     Miss  Helen  M. 
Miller,  Mr.  George  E. 

"     Mr.  Hugh  A. 

"     Mr.  James  P. 

"     Mrs.  James 

"     Mr.  Samuel  J. 

"     ]Miss  Martlia  M. 

"     Miss  Priscilla  D. 
Minehart,  Dr.  John  R. 

"     Mrs.  John  R. 
Mitchell,  Mr.  Charles  A. 

"     Mrs.  Charles  A. 
Moir,  Miss  Grace  P. 
Moland,  Mr.  George  N. 

"     Mrs.  George  N. 
Mole,  Mr.  James 

"     Mrs.  James 

"     Miss  Virginia  F. 
Moore,  Miss  Florence  Tilley 
Morrison,  Mr.  William 

"     Mrs.  William 
Mucke,  Mr.  Paul  R. 

"     Mrs.  Paul  R. 
Mullen,  Mr.  John 
Murrav,  Mrs.  Howard 


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Murray,  Mrs.  Margaret 
"     Mr.  Robert  A. 
"     Mrs.  Robert  A. 

Murren,  Mrs.  Herbert  W. 

Nagle,  Mrs.  John 
Newlin,  Mrs.  Nicholas 
**     Miss  Prudence  C, 

Ober,  Mr.  Harry 

"     Mrs.  Harry 
Odam,  Miss  Clara  W. 
Orbell,  Mrs.  James  H. 

"     Miss  Grace  Agnes 

"     Mrs.  John  T. 
Owen,  Miss  Jennie  R.. 

"     Mr.  Edmund  W. 

*'     Mr.  ¥/illiam  F. 

"     Mrs.  YViiHani  F. 

Parker,  Mrs.  Robert 
Parkinson,  Mrs.  Arthur 
Parry,  Mrs.  George  A. 

"     Mr.  James 

"     Mrs.  James 
Peace,  Mr.  George  H. 
Peacock,  Mrs.  Edgar  B. 
Peet,  Mrs.  James  B. 
Peters,  Mrs.  A.  E. 
Piatt,  Miss  Edith  M. 

"     Miss  Jane  W. 
Foley,  Mrs.  Franklin 
Pollock,  Mr.  R^ichard 
Poore,  Mr.  Augustus  P. 

"     Mrs.  Augustus  P. 

"     Miss  Helen  B. 
Powell,  Mrs.  Matilda  R. 
Prince,  Miss  Martha  E. 
Price,  Mrs.  Melvin  B. 
Pritchard,  Mr.  Thomas  W. 

"     Miss  May  E. 
Prizer,  Mrs.  Walter  W. 
PuUinger,  Mr.  George  S. 

"     Miss  Marian  A. 

Quick,  Mrs.  Mary  E. 

Ramsay,  Miss  Martha 
Reap,  Mrs.  William 
Reeves,  Mr.  Francis  B. 


Reeves,  Mr.  Francis  B.,  Jr. 

"     Mrs.  Francis  B.,  Jr. 
Reid,  Mr.  Edward  H. 

"     Mr.  James  E. 

*'     Mr.  John  Crawford 

"     Miss  AUce  M. 
Reiff,  Miss  Anna  E. 

"     Mr.  Maurice  A. 

"     Mrs.  Maurice  A. 
Richards,  Mr.  Lewis 

"     Mrs.  Lewis 
Riegel,  Miss  Eleanor  Bettini 
Robinson,  Mr.  William  R. 

"     Mrs.  William  R. 
Rodebaugh,  Mrs.  Charles 

"     Miss  Lizzie 
Root,  Miss  Mabelle  E. 
Rosenheim,  Mrs.  Harry  T. 
Rudolph,  Mr.  Alfred  J. 

"     Mrs.  Alfred  J. 

"     Miss  Margaret  M. 

"     Mr.  Charles  M. 
Ruth,  Mrs.  Isaac 

Schimpf,  Miss  Mary  A. 
Schinlever,  Mr.  Levi  L. 

"     Mrs.  Levi  L. 
Schoch,  Mrs.  Jacob  M. 
Schoell,  Mr.  Herman  A. 

"     Mrs.  Mary 
Schoenhut,  Mr."  Loring  C. 

"     Mrs.  Loring  C. 
Schrey,  Mrs.  Rennie  J. 
Schumacher,  Mrs.  Mary  B 

"     Miss  Mary  W. 
Scott,  Mr.  Miles  M. 

"     Mrs.  Miles  M. 

"     Mrs.  Mary  E. 

"     Miss  M.  EHzabeth 
Scowcroft,  Mrs.  Frederick 
Shackleton,  Mr.  Jonas 

"     Mrs.  Jonas 

"     Mr.  Ernest 

"     Miss  Ethel 

"     Mr.  Harold 

"     Mr.  John  B. 
Shermer,  Mrs.  George  Y. 
Sibel,  Mr.  Edward  N. 

"     Mrs.  Edward  N. 
Simpson,  Miss  Martha  W. 


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Skilton,  Mrs.  Robert  B. 
Skirving,  Mrs.  Samuel  M. 

"     Mrs.  Herbert  L. 

"     Mr.  Alfred  L. 

"     Mrs.  Alfred  L. 
Sniiley,  Mr.  James 
Smith,  Mr.  S.  Roland 

"     Mrs.  S.  Roland 

"     Miss  Mar>^ 

"     Miss  Helen 
Sneed,  Miss  Sadie 
Sohnlein,  Mrs.  Robert  A. 

"     Miss  Katherine 
Spoerhase,  Mr.  George  A. 

"     Mrs.  George  A. 
Stallman,  Miss  Elizabeth  K. 
Staub,  Mr.  Jacob  B.,  Jr. 

"     Mrs.  Jacob  B.,  Jr. 

"     Miss  Sarah  Elizabeth 
Steck,  Mr.  Emanuel 

"     Mrs  Emanuel 

"     Miss  Mamie  B. 

"     Mr.  Emanuel  R. 

"     Mrs.  Emanuel  R. 

"     Miss  Margaret  L. 
Steele,  Mr.  John  C. 

"     Mrs.  John  C. 

"     Mr.  Alexander  H. 

"     Miss  Jeanett€ 

"     Miss  Margaret  C. 
Steward,  Mrs.  Mary  M. 

"     Mr.  Albert  C. 

"     Miss  Mary  E. 

"     Miss  Minnie  R. 

"     Miss  Margaretta  T. 
Stewart,  Mr.  Thos.  DeWitt 

"     Mrs.  Thos.  DeWitt 
Stillman,  Miss  Mary  R. 
Sugden,  Mrs.  William  P. 
Summeril,  Miss  Elsie  M. 
Sutter,  Mr.  Samuel 
Suttie,  Mr.  John 

''     Mrs.  John 

"     Miss  Mary  B. 

"     Mr,  James 

"     Mrs.  James 
Sutton,  Mrs.  Charles  H. 
Strubel,  Mrs.  William 
Swan,  Mr.  Henry 

"     Mrs.  Henry 


Swart,  Mr,  Charles  H. 
"     Mrs,  Charles  H, 
"     Miss  Olive  H. 
"     Mr,  Charles  M. 

Taylor,  Mrs.  John 

"     Mr.  Thomas  S. 
Thompson,  Mrs.  James 

"     Mr,  Joseph 
Tilden,  Mr.  William  T. 

"     Mrs.  William  T. 

"     Mr.  Herbert  Marmaduke 
Tilton,  Mr.  Luther  B. 

"     Mrs.  Luther  B. 

"     Miss  Grace  Emily 

"     Mr.  Arthur 
Tomlinson,  Mrs.  Wm.  A. 
Toon,  Mr.  WiUiam  B. 

"     Mr.  Frank  Walter 
Towsend,  Miss  Amy 
Trowbridge,  Mrs.  Stanley. 

Van  Aemam,  Mrs.  Anna 

"     Mr.  Edward 
Van  Winkle,  Mabel  I. 

"     Miss  Julia 
Viall,  Mrs.  Rebecca  H. 

"     Mrs.  James  W. 

"     Miss  Emma 

''     Miss  Anna  E. 
Vincent,  Mr.  Philip  M.'- 

"     Mrs.  Philip  M. 
Vischer,  Mr,  Frederick 

"     Mrs.  Frederick 
Voigt,  Mr.  Karl  H 

"     Mrs.  Karl  H. 

"     Mr.  Edgar  H. 

"     Miss  Elsa  H. 

Wagner,  Mrs,  Fred  N. 
W^alter,  Mrs.  Charles  E. 

"     Mr.  John  J. 

"     Miss  Stella  Man- 
Walton,  Mr.  Edward  G. 
W^ard,  Mr,  Fountain  E. 
Warner,  Mr,  William  J 

"     Mrs,  William  J. 

"     Mrs.  Theodore  K. 
Warr,  Mrs.  John 
Webb,  Mrs.  George  C. 


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Webb,  Mr.  William  H. 

"     Mrs.  William  H. 
Webekind,  Mr.  C.  Harold 
Weil,  Mrs.  Charles  R. 
Weir,  Mr.  Coliii  C. 

"     Miss  Mary  A. 

"     Miss  Helen  A. 

"     Miss  Florence  E. 
Welk,  Mr.  Herman  C. 

"     Mrs.  Herman  C. 
Wentz,  Mr.  Charles  J. 

"     Mrs.  Charles  J. 
Whitaker,  Mrs.  Eli 
White,  Mrs.  Andrev/  R. 
Whiteman,  Miss  Zelia  I. 

"     Miss  Anna  R. 
Whiting,  Mr.  William  H. 

"     Mr.  James  H. 

"     Mrs.  James  H. 

"     Miss  Jeanie 

"     Miss  Elizabeth 

*'     Mr.  James 

"     Mr.  John  W. 
Wiggins,  Dr.  Edward  H. 

"     Mrs.  Edward  H. 
Wilkey,  Miss  Mary  S. 

"     Miss  Lida  R. 
Williams,  Mr.  Elwood  M. 

"     Mrs.  Elwood  M. 
Wilson,  Mrs.  Ellen 

"     Mr.  Aaron,  Jr. 

"     Miss  Margaret 

"     Mr.  Edward 

"     Mrs.  Edward 


Wilson,  Mrs.  Janet  W. 

"     Mr.  Alexander  W. 

"     Mrs.  Alexander  W. 
Wisner,  Miss  Vera  Lora 
Witherup,  Mrs.  Joseph  C. 
Wolf,  Mrs.  George  J.,  Jr. 
Wolfenden,  Mr.  Travisa  T. 
Wood,  Miss  Alice  M. 

"     Mr.  George  H. 

"     Mr.  Henry  E. 

"     Mrs.  Henry  E. 

"     Mr.  Frank  E. 
Woodcock,  Miss  Mary 
Worden,  Mr.  Frank  M. 

"     Mrs.  Frank  M. 
Vv^right,  Mrs.  Francis  R. 
Wjnin,  Mr.  Robert  M. 

"     Mr.  Joseph  J. 

Yates,  Miss  Alice  M. 

"     Miss  Sarah 
Yost,  Mr.  Thomas  W. 

"     Miss  Emily  B. 

"     Mr.  Charles  R. 
Young,  Miss  Mary  E. 

"     Miss  Margaret  Trimble 

"     Mr.  Alexander 

"     Mrs.  Alexander 

Zeh,  Mr.  Charles  P. 

"     Mrs.  Charles  P. 
Ziegler,  Mrs.  George  W. 
Zimmer,  Miss  Margaret 

"     Miss  Katharyn  E. 


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Cfiurcl)  0vqm\}ation 

As  OF  December,  1910. 
Rev.  Hugh  B.  McCrone, 


Francis  B.  Reeves,  George  H.  Deacon, 

William  T.  Tilden,  Charles  B.  Adamson, 

John  H.  Lauber,  John  R.  Minehart. 


laarb  of  WmstttB 

President S.  A.  Hendrickson. 

Vice-President Francis  B.  Reeves,  Jr. 

Secretary Thomas  D.  W.  Stewart. 

Treasurer William  Kershaw. 

George  H.  Deacon,  William  N.  Borden, 

James  H.  Chillman,  Charles  B.  Adamson,. 

George  N.  Moland,  Edward  Butler, 

George  Deens,  James  Mole. 

President William  J.  Cleeland. 

Vice-Presidents J.  R.  Minehart,  M.D., 

A.  B.  Drysdale. 
Secretary  and  Treasurer Charles  P.  Zeh, 


President Mrs.  C.  B.  Adamson. 

Vice-Presidents Mrs.  Tilden, 

Mrs.  Clugston, 
Mrs.  Deacon. 

Secretary- Mrs.  Borden. 

Treasurer Mrs.  M.  E.  Scott. 


34  WAKEFIELD    PRESBYTERIAN 

President Mrs.  Deacon. 

Vice-Presidents Mrs.  Clarke, 

Mrs.  Hunter, 

Mrs.  Wood. 

Secretary Mrs,  Baily. 

Treasurer Mrs.  J.  F.  Gray. 

Secretary  of  Home  Literature Miss  Mole. 

Secretary  of  Foreign  Literature Miss  Maloney. 

President Theo.  G.  Alteneder. 

Vice-President .Miss  Helene  S.  Gloeckner. 

Secretary Miss  Margaret  Steck 

Treasurer George  Wood. 

Corresponding  Secretary Miss  Mary  N.  Jester. 

Pianist Miss  Mary  C.  Alteneder. 

^nUtmthivitt  ^atxtt^  01.  IE. 

President Louis  E.  Clarke. 

Vice-President Helen  L.  Boggs. 

Treasurer William  M.  Hunter. 

Assistant  Treasurer Mabel  Eisenbrey. 

Recording  Secretary Elmer  F.  Conner. 

Corresponding  Secretary Mrs.  Davidson. 

Pianist Stanley  Gross. 

President Russell  Clarke. 

Vice-President Edna  Gloeckner. 

Secretary Carolyn  Haywood. 

Treasurer Edgar  Eldredge. 

Pianist Helen  Barton. 

President Mrs.  Tilden. 

Vice-Presidents Mrs.  Chillman, 

Mrs.  De  Kalb. 

Secretary Mrs.  Cuming. 

Treasurer Mrs.  Spoerhase. 

M.  W,  W.  ^omtg 

President Mary  B.  Suttie. 

Vice-President Georgina  Magill. 

Secretary Ida  H.  Bayer. 

Treasurer Helen  Gloeckner. 


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35 


tr^e  Cfjurcf)  CJjoir 


0npranoB 


Miss  Emma  Alteneder, 

Miss 

Miss  Emma  D.  Bailey, 

Mrs. 

Miss  Anna  Drysdale, 

Miss 

Miss  Helen  Gloeckner, 

Miss 

Miss  Bertha  Jatho, 

Miss 

Miss  Miriam  Lukens, 

Miss 

Mrs.  James  Parry, 

Miss 

Miss  Sareeta  Renton, 

Mrs. 

Miss  Mary  B.  Suitie, 

Miss 

Miss  Helen  Weir, 

Miss 

Miss  Florence  White, 

Mrs. 

Mary  Alteneder, 
L.  E.  Calkins, 
Edna  Eldridge, 
Mabel  Grebe, 
Helen  Krewson, 
Georgina  Magill, 
Eleanor  Riegel, 
H.  L.  Skirving, 
Mabel  Townsend, 
Florence  Weir, 
F.  S.  Hunlock — Soloist. 


Miss  Alice  Duffey, 
Miss  Helen  Barton, 
Miss  Margaret  Boggs, 

Mrs. 


Alt00 

Miss  Cora  Duffey, 
Miss  Elizabeth  Blyth, 
Miss  Elsie  Kulp, 
Charles  Zeh, 


Mr.  T.  Alteneder, 
Mr,  E.  Duffey, 
Mr.  J.  H.  Stafford, 


Mr.  George  W.  Boggs, 
Mr.  H.  W.  Martin, 
Mr.  Arthur  Sermon, 
Mr.  Colon  Weir. 


Mr.  William  Amey, 
Mr.  H.  Davidson, 
Mr.  John  Lauber, 
Mr.  Hal  Renton, 


^aSB^B 


Mr.  H.  Crosscup, 

Mr.  L.  E.  Calkins, 

Mr.  R.  Pollock, 

Mr,  J.  H.  Renton — Soloist. 


©rgatttBt 

Mr.  Lawrence  J,  Jost. 


36  WAKEFIELD    PRESBYTERIAN 


Superintendent Francis  B.  Reeves. 

Associate  Superintendent Charles  B.  Adamson. 

Assistant  Superintendent William  Blyth. 

Secretary  and  Treasurer Edward  Butler. 

Assistant  Secretaries Joseph  Butler, 

Louis  Klauke. 

Librarian Alfred  L.  Skirving. 

Assistant  Librarians Edward  P.  Leech, 

Harold  Shackleton. 

Superintendent Miss  Rebecca  Hemphill. 

Assistant  Superintendent Miss  Nellie  A.  MacFarland. 

Teacher Miss  Emily  T,  Brown. 

Assistant Miss  A.  Isabella  Brown. 

^rimartj  Btpavtmtnt 

Superintendent Charles  B.  Adamson. 

Assistant  Superintendents Miss  Elizabeth  J.  Hemphill, 

Mrs.  George  Y.  Shermer, 
Mr.  William  Adamson. 

Superintendent Mrs.  James  H.  Chillman. 

Assistant  Superintendents Mrs.  Thos.  D.  W.  Stewart. 

Mrs.  Herbert  L.  Skirving, 
Mrs.  William  N.  Borden, 
Miss  Lilly  T.  Goodwin. 

Superintendent Mrs.  Samuel  L.  Baily. 


CHURCH  AND  SUNDAY  SCHOOL      37 

main  ^rljoal  ^tutiittB 

Mr8.  Charles  B.  Adamson,  Miss  Marguerite  de  Krafft, 

Miss  Lucia  Adamson,  Miss  Edith  Duffey, 

Miss  Mary  C.  Alteneder,  Miss  Helen  S.  Gloeckner, 

Miss  Bertha  A,  Alteneder,  Miss  Mary  N,  Jester, 

Miss  Louise  E.  Alteneder,  Mr.  Theodore  P.  Jatho, 

Miss  Helen  Barton,  Mr.  John  H.  Lauber, 

Miss  Nellie  Betts,  Mrs.  J.  R.  Minehart, 

Mr.  George  W.  Boggs,  Mr.  George  N.  Moland, 

Mr.  Edward  R.  Bushnell,  Mrs.  R.  A.  Murray, 

Mr.  William  Blyth,  Miss  Nellie  A.  McFarland, 

Mr.  James  A.  Blyth,  Mrs.  Hugh  B.  McCrone, 

Mr.  Harry  Crosscup,  Miss  Ethel  Shackleton, 

Mrs.  Edward  F.  Cuming,  Mrs.  S,  Roland  Smith, 

Mrs.  George  H.  Deacon,  Mr.  Colin  C.  Weir, 

Mr.  George  Deens,  Miss  Zelia  I.  Whiteman, 

Mr.  H.  Davidson,  Miss  Mary  Woodcock, 
Mrs.  Charles  P.  Zeh. 

IBriitljrrljooii  Ithk  CHlaBfi 

Teacher William  J.  Eldridge. 

Qlrarli^r-OIratntttg  OUasa 

Teacher Miss  Edith  Devine. 

^unliag  ^rlyool  ©rrtjpBtra 

Leader „ J.  Henry  Renton. 

Pianist....... Miss  Mary  C.  Alteneder. 

First  Violin Theodore  Alteneder, 

Sidney  Newberry, 
Alfred  Skirving, 
George  Markley, 
Miss  Bertha  Alteneder. 

Second  Violin Ralph  Phillips, 

Thomas  Blondell, 
Joseph  Thomlin, 
Miss  M.  Sohnlein. 

Flute Charles  Ott. 

Violoncello Roland  Jost. 

First  Comet James  Adams. 

Second  Comet J.  Raeder. 

Trombone John  Allison. 

Pryorphone Lester  Calkins. 

Double  Bass J.  Davidson. 

Dmms Hal  N.  Renton. 


38  WAKEFIELD    PRESBYTERIAN 

I8^«nbau  #rI|ool  lEnrallmmt 

December,  1910. 

Main  School. 

Officers 8 

Teachers 33 

Scholars 493 

534 

Brotherhood  Bible  Class. 

Teacher 1 

Members 38 

39 

Intermediate  Department. 

Teachers 2 

Scholars  (ages  12  to  13) 27 

29 

Primary  School. 

Superintendent 1 

Teachers 3 

Scholars  (ages  7  to  11) 170 

174 

Little  Beginners. 

Teacher 1 

Assistant  Teachers 4 

Scholars  (ages  3  to  7) 112 

117 

Cradle  Roll. 

Superintendent 1 

Children  (ages  2  months  to  3  years) 34 

35 

Home  Class  Department. 

Superintendents 2 

Members 21 

23 

Total 951 


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^U  Cfjartcr 


OF   THE 


Wakttitlh  ^resbpterian  Cfiurcf) 

To  the  Honorable  the  Judges  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  in  and 
for  the  City  and  County  of  Philadelphia, 

The  undersigned,  citizens  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Penn- 
sylvania, ha\ang  associated  ourselves  together  for  the  worship 
of  Almight}^  God,  are  desirous  to  acquire  and  enjoy  the  powers 
and  immunities  of  a  corporation  or  body  politic  in  law,  by  the 
name  of  "The  Wakefield  Presbyterian  Church  in  German- 
town  ''  and  have  prepared  the  annexed  Constitution  and  instru- 
ment m  writing  specifying  the  objects,  articles,  conditions  and 
narne  or  style  under  which  we  have  associated,  which  we  here^vith 
exhibit  and   present  to   your  Honors. 

And  we  pray  your  Honors  to  take  such  action  in  the  prem- 
ises as  is  required  therein  by  law — 

And  we  will  ever  pray,  etc. 

William  Adamson,  First  Presbvterian  Church. 
Thos.  MacKellar,      "  ''  '< 

Jos.  W.  Parks,  "  "  " 

T.  Charlton  Henry,  "  "  " 

F.  S.  Kimball,  Second  Presbvterian  Church. 
Geo.  F.  Wiggan,      "  "  " 

Wm.  Brockie,  "  "  " 

Chas.  E.  Morgan,    "  "  " 

N.  B.  Unruh,  Market  Square  Presbyterian  Church. 
Jno.  T.  Roberts,  "  "  "  " 

Jno.  H.  Tingle y,  "  "  "  " 

Jno.  Krickbaum,  "  "  "  « 


40  WAKEFIELD    PRESBYTERIAN 


Constitution 

OF   THE 

"Wakttitlh  ^resiijpterian  Cijurtlj 
in  (gerntantotun" 

Article  1st. 

The  name,  style  and  title  of  this  Corporation  shall  be 
"The  Wakefield  Presbyterian  Church  in  Germantown," 
and  it  shall  be  connected  with  and  deemed  to  be  under  the  care 
of  that  General  Assembly  which  met  in  the  Central  Presbyterian 
Church,  in  the  city  of  Baltimore,  on  the  15th  day  of  May,  A.  D. 
1873,  and  its  successors. 

Article  2d. 

The  subscribers  and  such  others  as  being  citizens  of  this 
Commonwealth  shall  hereafter  become  members  of  this  church, 
and  who  shall  adhere  to  and  maintain  the  mode  of  faith  and 
church  discipline  as  set  forth  in  the  Confession  of  Faith  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  of  America,  shall 
become  and  be  a  corporation  and  body  politic  in  law  and  in 
fact,  to  have  contiauance  by  the  name,  style  and  title  afore- 
said, and  shall  have  full  power  to  make  use  and  have  one  common 
seal  of  such  form  and  device  as  they  shall  see  fit,  and  the  same 
to  break,  alter  or  renew  at  their  pleasure,  and  by  the  name, 
style  and  title  aforesaid,  shall  be  able  and  capable  to  sue  and 
be  sued,  implead  and  be  impleaded,  in  any  court  or  courts, 
before  any  justice  or  justices,  judge  or  judges,  in  any  manner 
of  suits,  complaints,  pleas,  causes,  matters  and  demands  what- 
soever, and  all  and  every  matter  therein  to  do  as  fully  and 
effectually  as  any  person  or  persons,  bodies  politic  and  corporate, 
within  this  Commonwealth  may  or  can  do,  and  may  make  rules, 
by-laws  and  ordinances  and  do  everything  needful  for  the 
good  government  and  support  of  the  affairs  of  the  said  corpora- 
tion: provided,  always,  that  such  ordinances  be  not  repugnant 
to  the  Constitution  or  laws  of  the  United  vStates  or  of  this  State 
or  to  this  instrument  or  to  the  Constitution  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  the  United  States  of  America. 

Article  3d. 

The  said  corporation,  by  the  name,  style  and  title  afore- 
said, shall  be  able  and  capable  in  law,  according  to  the  terms 


CHURCH  AND  SUNDAY  SCHOOL      41 

and  conditions  of  this  instrument,  to  take,  receive  and  hold, 
sell,  mortgage,  and  transfer  all  manner  of  lands,  tenements, 
rents,  annunities,  franchises  and  hereditaments,  and  any  sum 
or  sums  of  money,  and  any  manner  of  goods  and  chattels  which 
may  now  be  in  its  possession  or  which  maj'-  hereafter  be  acquired 
by  bequest,  devise  or  donation  or  otherwise,  to  be  disposed  of 
according  to  the  articles  and  conditions  of  this  instrument  and 
the  By-Laws  of  this  corporation  or  the  will  of  the  donors: 
provided,  that  the  clear  yearly  value  or  income  of  the  estate, 
of  v/hatever  name  or  species  of  property  the  same  may  consist 
in  possession  of  this  church,  shall  not  exceed  ten  thousand 
dollars. 

Article  4th. 

There  shall  be  a  Board  of  Trustees,  to  consist  of  twelve 
persons,  who  shall  be  pewholders  and  who  shall  be  elected  by 
the  pewholders  (qualified  as  prescribed  in  Article  5th)  on  the 
first  Monday  in  October,  A.  D.  1874,  as  follows.  On  that  day 
four  persons  shall  be  elected  as  Trustees  to  serve  for  one  year; 
four  persons  to  serve  for  two  years,  and  four  persons  to  serve 
for  three  years;  and  on  the  first  Monday  in  October  in  every 
year  thereafter  the  qualified  voters  shall  elect  four  persons  to 
serve  as  Trustees  for  three  years  to  supply  the  vacancies  thus 
occurring.  A  Trustee  whose  term  of  service  has  expired  may, 
nevertheless,  be  always  re-elected.  Four  members  of  this 
Board,  regularly  convened  at  the  time  and  place  of  meeting, 
shall  constitute  a  quorum  for  the  transaction  of  business:  pro- 
vided, always,  that  in  case  from  any  cause  an  election  should 
not  take  place  as  hereinbefore  pro\dded  the  validity  of  this 
charter  shall  not  be  affected,  but  that  said  election  shall  take 
place  \sTithin  sixty  days  thereafter,  after  pubHc  notice  from  the 
pulpit  two  Sabbaths 'pre^^ous  to  such  irregular  election.  The 
Trustees  shall  remain  in  office  till  their  places  are  supplied. 

Article  5th. 

Notice  of  the  annual  election  shall  be  given  from  the  pulpit 
at  least  two  Sabbaths  previous  to  its  taking  place.  Persons 
qualified  to  vote  for  Trustees  shall  be  holders  of  pews  or  sittings 
in  pews  in  the  church  one  year  before  the  day  of  election  and 
contributing  at  least  five  dollars  therefor  to  the  funds  of  the 
church  (this  proviso  to  be  inoperative  till  the  first  Monday  in 
October,  1874),  and  no  person  shall  vote  whose  pew  rent  shall 
be  one  year  in  arrear,  nor  shall  any  indi\ddual  be  entitled  to 
more  than  one  vote  in  right  of  holding  more  than  one  pew  or 
sitting ;  nor  shall  any  person  under  the  age  of  twenty-one  years 
be  permitted  to  vote  at  any  election  for  Trustees  pro\dded  for 
by  this  Charter.  The  Secretary  of  this  corporation  shall  furnish 
the   pewholders,   when    convened   to   elect  Trustees,    with   the 


42  WAKEFIELD    PRESBYTERIAN 

names  of  those  persons  whose  pew  rent  shall  be  one  year  in 
arrear,  and  on  and  after  the  first  Monday  in  October  (1874)  with 
the  names  of  those  pewholders  who  have  not  been  such  for  one 
year. 

Article  6th, 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  within  seven 
days  after  the  annual  election,  to  elect  by  ballot  from  among 
themselves  a  President,  Secretary  and  Treasurer.  The  Treas- 
urer shall  annually  or  oftener,  if  required,  report  the  state  of 
the  fimds  of  the  church  under  his  charge. 

Article  7th. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  shall  not  dispose  of,  alien,  sell,  or 
in  anywise  encumber  the  real  estate  belonging  to  said  corpora- 
tion, unless  with  the  consent  of  a  majority  of  the  pewholders 
in  said  church,  such  consent  to  be  expressed  at  a  meeting  spe- 
cially called  for  that  purpose  by  the  Trustees,  of  which  meeting 
notice  shall  be  given  in  the  same  manner  and  for  the  same 
length  of  time  as  is  provided  for  in  the  case  of  the  election  of 
Trustees:  provided,  that  the  church  edifice  and  the  lot  upon 
which  the  same  is  erected  shall  not  be  alienated,  mortgaged,  or 
in  anywise  encumbered,  except  for  the  purpose  of  paying  debts 
incurred  in  the  erection  or  construction  thereof  or  for  purchasing 
another  lot  and  erecting  thereon  another  church  edifice  in  the 
place  of  the  one  now  being  constructed. 

Article  8th. 

The  Trustees  shall  have  power  for  and  in  the  name  of  the 
church  to  make  and  perform  contracts  and  in  general  to  manage 
and  regulate  the  temporal  affairs  thereof;  but  they  should  not 
expend  or  contract  for  the  expenditure  of  any  sum  of  money 
exceeding  one  thousand  dollars  in  any  one  year  over  and  above 
the  salaries  of  Pastor,  Clerk  and  Sexton,  and  the  necessary 
expenses  of  painting,  fuel  and  cleaning  of  the  church:  provided, 
however,  that  nothing  contained  in  this  article  shall  be  so  con- 
strued as  to  prevent  an  increase  of  the  salary  of  the  Pastor 
whenever  the  Board  of  Trustees  at  their  discretion  shall  deem  it 
expedient. 

Article  9th. 

It  is  agreed  that  William  Adamson,  Thomas  MacKellar, 
Joseph  W.  Parks,  T.  Charlton  Henry,  Frederick  S.  Kimball, 
George  F.  Wiggan,  William  Brockie,  Charles  E.  Morgan,  Nicholas 
B.  Unruh,  John  T.  Roberts  John  Krickbaum  and  John  H. 
Tingley  be  a  Board  of  Trustees  with  full  powers  until  the  annual 
election  in  October,  1874. 


CHURCH  AND  SUNDAY  SCHOOL      43 

Article  10th. 

The  President  (or  President  j)ro  tern-pore)  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  shall  affix  the  seal  of  the  corporation,  attested  by  his 
signature  and  that  of  the  Secretary,  to  all  contracts,  deeds, 
obligations,  certificates  of  loans,  notes  or  other  instruments, 
whereby  the  said  corporation,  may  become  bound  or  indebted, 
and  to  such  other  testunonials  and  certificates  as  the  said  Board 
shall  direct,  and  all  pews  shall  be  held  by  the  purchasers,  sub- 
ject to  such  yearly  rent,  restrictions,  regulations  and  rules  of 
transfer  as  the  said  Board  may  lawfully  enact,  and  in  case  of 
neglect  or  refusal  for  one  year  to  pay  the  rent  of  any  pew,  said 
Board  may,  at  their  discretion,  after  fifty  days'  notice  to  the 
owTier  or  o-wners  of  such  pew,  his,  her  or  their  agent  or  repre- 
sentative, sell  and  dispose  of  the  same,  paying  over  to  the  proper 
o^-ner  thereof  the  balance,  if  any,  over  and  above  such  arrears 
of  rent,  interest  and  expenses. 

Article  11th. 

The  said  Board  of  Trustees  shall  keep  a  book  in  which 
shall  be  entered  mmutes  of  all  their  proceedings,  and  they  shall 
also  keep  a  true  and  accurate  account  of  all  their  receipts  and 
expenditures,  which  minutes  and  accounts  shall  be  open  to  the 
inspection  of  any  twelve  or  more  of  the  pewholders  in  the  said 
church. 

Article  12th, 

In  case  of  a  vacancy  or  death  or  otherwise  in  the  Board  of 
Trustees,  the  majority  of  such  Board  shall  elect,  at  such  time 
as  they  shall  see  fit,  an  individual  to  fill  such  vacancy,  and  in 
case  of  the  death,  resignation  or  removal  of  any  officer  of  said 
Board,  the  members  of  said  Board  shall  elect  from  among 
themselves  an  indi\'idual  to  fill  such  office  tUl  the  next  annual 
election.  The  said  Board  may  make  such  By-Laws  and  regula- 
tions for  their  OTvn  government  as  they  shall  see  fit:  provided, 
that  they  be  not  repugnant  to  the  letter  or  spirit  of  this  instru- 
ment. 

Atricle  13th. 

The  church  shall  not  be  used  except  for  religious  and 
charitable  purposes. 

Article  14th. 

This  Constitution  shall  not  be  altered  or  amended  except 
by  the  vote  of  two-thirds  of  such  quahfied  voters  as  shall  assemble 
in  pursuance  of  due  pubhc  notice  from  the  pulpit,  specifying 


44  WAKEFIELD    PRESBYTERIAN 

this  particular  object  of  the  intended  meeting,  of  which  meeting 
notice  shall  be  given  as  provided  in  Article  5th. 

State  of  Pennsylvania,  ) 

City  and  County  of  Philadelphia  )  ^^' 

Be  it  remembered,  That  at  a  Court  of  Common  Pleas  in 
and  for  the  City  and  Coimty  of  Philadelphia,  held  on  the  twelfth 
day  of  November,  1873,  at  said  City,  the  annexed  and  foregoing 
petition  of  William  Adamson  and  others,  -v\dth  the  Constitution 
or  instrument  in  writing  accompanying  the  same,  was  exhibited 
and  presented  to  the  Court,  and  the  same  having  been  perused 
and  examined  by  the  Court,  and  the  objects,  articles  and  con- 
ditions therein  set  forth  and  contained  appearing  lawful  and 
not  injurious  to  the  community, 

On  motion  of  George  Junkin,  Esq.,  attorney  for  the  peti- 
tioners, it  was  ordered  by  the  Court  that  the  said  instrument 
in  writing  should  be  filed  in  the  Office  of  the  Prothonotary  of 
the  said  Court,  and  that  notice  of  said  application  should  be 
given  thereof  in  accordance  with  the  Act  of  Assembly  in  said  case 
made  and  provided  and    there  the  said  petition  and 

instrument  in  writing  were  so  filed  in  said  office.  And  now, 
December  First  (1st),  A.  D.  1873,  it  appearing  to  the  said  Court 
that  due  notice  of  said  application  has  been  given  according  to 
law,  and  no  sufficient  reason  having  been  shown  to  the  contrary. 

On  motion  of  George  Junkin,  Esq.,  attorney  for  the  said 
petitioners. 

It  is  by  the  said  Court  decreed  and  declared  that  the  said 
WUliam  Adamson  and  his  associates  shall,  according  to  the 
articles  and  conditions  in  said  instrument  in  writing  set  forth 
and  contained,  become  and  be  a  corporation  or  body  politic, 
and  that  the  said  Charter  of  Incorporation  shall  be  recorded 
in  the  office  for  the  Recording  Deeds  in  said  city  and  county. 

In  Witness  whereof,  I,  John  A.  Loughridge,  the  Prothono- 
tary of  the  said  Court,  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  the  seal 
of  the  said  Court  this  31st  day  of  December,  in  the  year  of  Our 
Lord  One  thousand  eight  hundred  and  seventy-three  (1873). 

Geo.  T.  Deess,  for 

J.  A.  Loughridge 
[Seal]  Prothonotary. 

Recorded  in  the  Office  for  Recording  Deeds,  etc.,  in  and 
for  the  City  and  Coimty  of  Philadelphia,  in  Charter  Book  F.  T.  W. 
No.  1,  page  214,  etc. 

Witness  my  hand  and  seal  of  office  this  twenty-ninth  day 
of  January,  A.  D.,  1874. 

F.  T.  Walton, 

Recorder. 


CHURCH  AND  SUNDAY  SCHOOL      45 


SUPPLEMENT 


THE   ROLLING  YEARS. 

The  old  year  is  dying  away  like  a  song 

In  the  night;  and  its  notes  are  scarcely  heard, 

For  the  singers  all  are  marching  along; 

They  are  marching  away,  'till  ne'er  a  word 

Falls  on  my  ear:  it  is  dark:  they  have  gone! 
But  the  years  come  rolling  on. 

They  go,  and  they  come — these  cycles  of  time : 
We  call  that  one  old  and  this  we  call  new : 

The  old  we  ring  out  with  a  merry  chime. 
And  we  ring  in  the  new  with  great  ado : 

But  what  is  the  story  the  beUs  tell  you 
As  the  years  go  rolling  on? 

We  say  ring  out  old  age  with  its  silv'ry  hair 
As  we  sound  forth  the  knell  of  the  dying  year ; 

Let  us  ring  in  strong  youth  and  the  maiden  fair 
Who  nothing  shall  know  of  sorrow  or  fear: 

Through  this  glad  New  Year,  farewell  to  all  care, 
Let  the  years  come  rolling  on. 

Is  that  the  refrain  that  the  bells  peal  forth? 

No  sorrow  nor  care?     No  burdens,  no  tears? 
If  that  is  their  story,  'tis  nothing  Y>^orth. 

They're  but  sounding  brass!     Ask  the  by-gone  years; 
They've  been  garnering  truth  erst  the  stars  had  birth. 
While  the  years  were  rolling  on. 

List!  list,  maiden  fair,  draw  near  trusty  youth, 
What  the  old  years  tell  will  guide  you  aright. 

The  Rock  of  Ages  makes  clear  all  the  truth 
Of  the  glorious  God,  the  source  of  all  light, 

Brings  joy  to  the  day,  and  peace  in  the  night — 
As  the  years  are  rolling  on. 

Tho'  sorrow  o'ertakes  you,  His  word  stands  sure — 

It  endures  but  a  night,  the  mom  breaks  in  joy. 
Say  not  then  your  grief  you  cannot  endure ; 

By  our  woes  we  arise  to  our  home  in  the  sky 
Where  through  endless  years  every  cheek  shall  be  dry 
As  etemitv  rolls  on. 

F.  B.  R. 


46,  WAKEFIELD    PRESBYTERIAN 

A  HAPPY  NEW  YEAR  TO  YOU! 

New  mercies,  new  blessings,  new  light  on  thy  way ; 
New  courage,  new  hope,  and  new  strength  for  each  day; 
New  notes  of  thanksgiving,  new  chords  of  delight, 
New  praise  in  the  morning,  new  songs  in  the  night ; 
New  stars  for  thy  crown,  and  new  tokens  of  love ;  ^ 
New  gleams  of  the  glory  that  awaits  thee  above ; 
New  light  of  His  countenance  full  and  unpriced — 
All  this  be  the  joy  of  thy  new  life  in  Christ. 

Frances  Ridley  Havergal. 


FOURTEENTH  CHAPTER  OF  JOHN 

Tune — "Throw  Out  the  Life-line." 

Let  not  your  heart  be  with  trouble  oppress'd, 
Go  with  your  burden  to  Jesus  and  rest ; 
This  is  His  counsel,  heart-cheering  and  true 
Love's  dearest  words  spoken  to  me  and  to  you. 

Chorus. 

Christ  with  us  ever!   comfortless  never! 

Joy  to  the  weary  and  sad ! 
From  such  a  Saviour,  nothing  can  sever 

Those  whom  His  words  have  made  glad. 

Think,  troubled  soul,  of  the  mansions  so  fair! 
List  to  His  promise — I  go  to  prepare 
A  place  for  you  in  my  Father's  bright  home. 
And  you  shall  be  welcome  whene'er  you  may  come. 

Cho. 

I  would  have  told  you  if  it  were  not  so : 
I  go  before,  that  the  way  you  may  know. 
I  am  the  way,  and  the  truth,  and  the  life ; 
Then  cease,  troubled  soul,  from  your-sorrow  and  strife. 

Cho. 

If  in  my  name — I  now  say  unto  you — 
Ye  shall  ask  anything,  that  will  I  do : 
Anything!   ev'rything!   blessings  untold! 
No  treasure  worth  having  will  Jesus  withhold. 

Cho. 

Peace  I  leave  with  you — sweet  promise  and  true ; 
Not  as  the  world  gives  give  I  imto  you 
Sweetest  assurance  to  all  who  draw  near — 
The  Spirit  shall  come  and  abide  with  you  here. 

Cho. 
F.  B.  R. 


CHURCH   AND    SUNDAY   SCHOOL  47 

CALL  AND  CONSECRATION. 

In  the  still  air,  a  voice  calls  soft  and  clear ; 

Be  not  afraid:    'tis  Jesus'  voice  you  hear; 

Come,  weary  soul,  your  Saviour  bids  you  come, 

He  calls  His  wandering  child  to  Him,  "Come  home,  come  home." 

Chorus. 

My  Saviour,  I'm  coming,  I  hear  Thy  loving  call, 
I  consecrate  myself  to  Thee,  my  life,  my  all! 

*'Come  unto  me  and  I  will  give  you  rest" ; 

This  is  love's  call  to  weary  hearts  opprest: 
"Come,  come  to  me,  your  burdens  I  ^\ill  bear"; 

I  hear  the  call  and  I  will  come,  my  Sa\iour  dear. — Cho. 

Jesus,  my  Lord,  O  may  Thy  will  be  mine 

Make  me  to  know  my  will  is  ever  Thine 

Dark  tho'  my  way  may  sometimes  seem  to  be. 

Shine  Thou  upon  my  pathway,  keep  me  near  to  Thee, — Cho. 

My  heart  is  glad,  I  trust  Thy  love,  dear  Lord, 

Help  me  to  serve  Thee,  leaning  on  Thy  v/ord, 

Draw  me  to  Thee  by  cords  of  tender  love 

That  I  may  have  a  foretaste  here  of  heav'n  above. — Cho. 

F.  B.  R. 


""\^^lcrefore,  my  beloved  brethren,  be  ye  stedfast,  unmov- 
able,  always  abounding  in  the  work  of  the  Lord,  forasmuch  as 
ve  know  that  your  labor  is  not  in  vain  in  the  Lord." — /  Cor. 
'15  :  58. 

"Watch  ye,  stand  fast  in  the  faith,  quit  you  like  men,  be 
strong.  Let  all  that  ye  do  be  done  in  love." — /  Cor.  16  :  13, 
R.  V. 


A  BRIGHTER  DAY. 

There  da-wiis  a  day  on  ev'ry  heart 

When  earthh'  pleasures  cloy. 
When  clouds  grow  dark  and  fears  disturb 

Our  heart's-ease  and  our  joy; 
Then  once  again  the  sun  breaks  forth, 

Before  the  daylight  dies. 
And  overhead  the  rainbow  paints 

God's  promise  in  the  skies. 


48  WAKEFIELD    PRESBYTERIAN 

O  why  art  thou  distressed,  my  soul, 

O  why  art  thou  cast  down? 
Hope  thou,  for  God  will  lead  thee  on 

Till  thou  hast  won  thy  crown 
Then  in  that  land  of  glory  bright, 

Where  sorrows  never  come, 
All  perfectness  and  peace  are  thine, 

In  Thy  eternal  home. 

Fear  not,  O  troubled  soul,  fear  not, 

List  to  the  Master's  voice, 
Thy  Father's  love  will  never  fail, 

He  bids  thy  heart  rejoice. 
Your  faith  in  Him  and  heav'nly  hope, 

Will  lead  you  ever  higher. 
Until  you  gain  a  store  of  joys. 

Beyond  your  best  desire. 

Come,  cast  your  burden  on  the  Lord ; 

Our  God  is  always  kind; 
Let  naught  but  sin  disturb  your  soul 

And  you  v/ill  ever  find 
That  life  is  sweet,  your  pathway  bright, 

That  God  is  leading  thee 
In  pastures  green,  by  waters  still, 

From  sin  and  sorrow  free. 


INVOCATION. 

Tunes — Invocation;  Austria. 

Heav'nly  Father,  God  of  nations, 

Thou  hast  bless'd  our  native  land, 
Show'ring  favors  without  measure 

From  Thy  ever  gracious  hand. 
Oft  beside  the  quiet  waters 

Thou  hast  led  us ;  still  lead  on ; 
Shield  when  dark'ning  tempests  threaten, 

Guard  us  'till  the  storm  has  gone. 

Father,  haste  the  day  of  promise. 

When,  in  all  the  world  around. 
Wars  shall  cease ;  ye  angels  hearken ! 

Hear  the  gospel  trumpet  sound ! 
Wake  the  echo,  Christian  nations! 

"Peace  on  earth,"  your  watchword  be, 
'Till  Love's  banner,  all  victorious, 

Floats  o'er  ev'ry  land  and  sea. 


F.  B.  R. 


CHURCH  AND  SUNDAY  SCHOOL      49 

Light  the  torch  of  truth  and  freedom 

O'er  tlie  nations  near  and  far; 
Bid  the  world's  belated  rulers 

Now  prepare  for  Zion's  war. 
Glory  be  to  God  the  Father, 

With  the  Spirit  and  the  Son ; 
Blessing,  honor,  glory,  power, 

To  our  God,  great  Three  in  One. 

F.  B.  R.,  1898. 


KING  OF  KINGS. 

Tunes — "National  Hymn,"  by  G.  W.  Warren;    "Moscow,"  by 
A.  F.  Lwoff. 

Come,  let  us  sing  unto  the  Lord  our  God. 

In  jojrful  song  the  name  of  Jesus  laud; 

Glad  hearts  we  bring  this  happy  Christmas  day. 

While  in  His  house  we  come  to  praise  and  pray. 

Laud  Christ  the  King,  and  celebrate  His  birth; 
Laud  Him  ye  skies,  O  praise  Him  all  the  earth ; 
Ring,  ring  ye  bells,  let  mortals  hear  the  sound, 
And  let  the  echo  wake  the  world  around ! 

Bom  in  a  stall,  yet  King  of  kings  was  He ; 
King  of  all  kings  He  evennore  shall  be ; 
Set  up  Thy  throne  in  all  our  hearts  we  pray ; 
Reign,  reign  supreme  till  breaks  eternal  day! 

Join  every  voice,  all  hearts  your  tribute  bring; 
Loud  anthems  raise  to  Jesus  Christ  your  King; 
Praise  Him  for  aye  with  heaven's  angelic  host ; 
Glory  to  Father,  Son  and  Holy  Ghost ! 

F.  B.  R.,  1909. 


"How  amiable  are  Thy  tabernacles,  O  Lord  of  hosts!  My 
soul  longeth,  yea,  even  fainteth  for  the  courts  of  the  Lord ;  my 
heart  and  my  flesh  cry  out  for  the  li\ing  God.  Blessed  are  they 
that  dwell  in  Thy  house;  they  will  be  still  praising  Thee." — 
Psalm  84  : 1-4. 

"Let  us  hold  fast  the  profession  of  our  faith  without  waver- 
iug^  *  *  *  j2ot  forsaking  the  assembling  of  ourselves  together 
as  the  manner  of  some  is." — Heb.  10  :  23-25. 


50  WAKEFIELD    PRESBYTERIAN 

NATIONAL  HYMN. 

God  bless  our  native  land ! 
Firm  may  she  ever  stand, 

Thro'  storm  and  night : 
When  the  wild  tempests  rave, 
Ruler  of  wind  and  wave, 
Do  Thou  our  country  save 

By  Thy  great  might. 

For  her  our  prayers  shall  rise 
To  God  above  the  skies ; 

On  Him  we  wait: 
Thou  who  art  ever  nigh, 
Guarding  with  watchful  eye. 
To  Thee  aloud  we  cry, 

God  save  the  State. 

Rev.  C.  T.  Brooks  and  Rev.  John  S.  Dwight, 

God  give  our  President, 
Congress  and  Cabinet 

Light  from  above. 
To  do  Thy  holy  will, 
Thy  counsel  to  fulfil ; 
Oh  make  all  hearts  to  thrill 
^  With  heavenly  love. 

Come,  Jesus,  Prince  of  Peace, 
Reign  now  and  never  cease 

Us  to  defend. 
Let  all  men  everywhere. 
Our  glorious  freedom  share, 
Grant,  Father,  this  our  prayer 

World  without  end.     Amen. 

F.  B.  R.,  1898. 


"We  will  not  forsake  the  house  of  our  God."— Neh.  10  :  39. 

"The  world  will  never  be  right  till  the  mind  of  God  is  the 
measure  of  things,  and  the  will  of  God  the  law  of  things." 

"Respect  and  graciousness  from  each  to  each  is  the  very 
essence  of  Christianity,  independent  of  rank  or  possession  or 
relation." 

George  MacDonald. 


CHURCH   AND   SUNDAY   SCHOOL  51 

GOD  LOVES  US. 

We  thank  Thee,  Father,  that  Thy  love  for  all 
Has  brought  to  each  of  us  Thy  mercy's  call ; 
That  none  may  perish,  but  that  all  may  come, 
E'en  the  lone  wanderer  far  away  from  home. 

We  rise  to  bless  Thy  name,  most  holy  Lord ; 
Forever  be  Thy  name  on  earth  adored ; 
Let  the  sweet  incense  of  our  praise  arise 
And  blend  with  angel-songs  above  the  skies. 

Give  to  each  weary  one  a  heart  to  say 

I  thank  Thee  for  the  love  that,  day  by  day. 

Has  shed  its  radiance  over  all  my  years. 

Has  kept  my  heart  from  grief,  my  eyes  from  tears. 

Now,  Father,  this  shall  be  our  fervent  prayer 
In  Jesus'  name,  that  every  soul  may  share" 
In  Jesus'  love,  may  all  in  Him  believe. 
And  by  His  mercy  sweet,  His  life  receive. 

F.  B.  R. 

"He  who  is  faithful  over  a  few  things  is  lord  over  cities. 
It  does  not  matter  whether  you  preach  in  Westminster  Abbey 
or  teach  a  ragged  class,  so  you  be  faithful." 

"We  ought  not  to  lose  faith  in  man  because  things  do  not 
all  go  and  come  our  way.  Whatever  be  our  station,  things  will 
fall  more  and  more  our  way  if  only  we  are  faithful." 

George  MacDonald. 

New  times  demand  new  measures  and  new  men ; 
The  world  advances  and  in  time  outgrows 
The  laws  that  in  our  father's  day  were  best ; 
And,  doubtless,  after  us  some  purer  scheme 
Will  be  shaped  out  by  wiser  men  than  we. 
Made  wiser  by  the  steady  march  of  truth. 
The  time  is  ripe,  and  rotten-ripe,  for  change ; 
Then  let  it  come ;  I  have  no  dread  of  what 
Is  called  for  by  the  instinct  of  mankind. 
Nor  think  I  that  God's  world  would  fall  apart 
Because  we  tear  a  parchment  more  or  less. 
Truth  is  eternal,  but  her  effluence. 
With  endless  change,  is  fitted  to  the  hour; 
Her  mirror  is  turned  forward,  to  reflect 
The  promise  of  the  future,  not  the  past. 

James  Russell  Lowell. 


52       WAKEFIELD    PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH 

GOD  IS  LOVE. 

On  all  who  would  God's  grace  implore 
That  grace  our  God  bestoweth : 

Ask  what  thou  wilt,  He  giveth  more, 
His  heart  with  love  o'erfloweth; 
Wonderful  love. 

He  hears  my  cry  when  sorrow's  v/aves 

Roll  o'er  my  soul  in  billows, 
And,  hearing,  bares  His  ami  to  save, 

While  on  His  breast  He  pillows 
My  aching  head. 

In  Him  I  trust;  in  Him  confide, 

His  word  cannot  deceive  me : 
Come  gain  or  loss,  whate'er  betide 

I  know  He  wall  receive  me 
Just  as  I  am. 

Hast  thou  not  known  my  Saviour's  love? 

Woulds't  thou  not  have  it  ever? 
Thy  Father  waiteth  now  to  prove 

A  tie  that  naught  can  sever 

From  His  own  Child. 

Unworthy  we  may  be ;  not  one 
By  right  can  claim  His  favor 
Save  through  the  merits  of  His  Son, 
Our  blessed  Lord  and  Saviour 
O,  matchless  love! 

F.  B.  R. 


"  Finally,  my  brethren,  be  strong  in  the  Lord,  and  in  the 
power  of  His  might.  Put  on  the  whole  armour  of  God,  that  ye 
may  be  able  to  stand  against  the  wiles  of  the  devil." — Eph.  6:  11. 

"  The  Lord  make  you  to  increase  and  abound  in  love  one 
toward  another  and  to  all  men." — Thess.  3 :  12. 

"  And  the  peace  of  God,  which  passe th  all  understanding, 
shall  keep  your  hearts  and  minds  through  Christ  Jesus." — 
Phil.  4 :  7. 


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